[issue17658] pythonw.exe crashes on opening IDLE

[Patrick Poitras]

Patrick Poitras added the comment:

So I tried to open Python33\python.exe and it's trying to load codecs from Python 2.7 which I think has to be the cause of the problem. When it raises CodecRegistryError, the 2.7 syntax is wrong for 3.3 and causes a SyntaxError.

Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load system file codec
  File "C:\Python27\Lib\encodings\__init__.py", line 123
    raise CodecRegistryError,\
                            ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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