[issue35596] Fatal Python error: initfsencoding: unable to load the file system codec zipimport.ZipImportError: can't find module 'encodings'

[Steve Dower]

Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> added the comment:

Looks like zipimport in 3.7 always rejected CHECKED_HASH pycs, while in 3.8 it always accepts them (or runs it through a validation process that passes them when the source file doesn't exist - I only confirmed by testing a build, not by walking through the new sources).

Rather than changing the old zipimport now, it's more correct to fix the embeddable ZIP build to specify UNCHECKED_HASH.

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assignee:  -> steve.dower

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