[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:

And I assume now that the reason it broke in 3.7.2 is because the pyc mode for the embeddable distro changed. Which means the right place for tests is in a separate build that uses properly laid out Python rather than testing in the source tree (like what I have in the windows-appx-tests.yml file and Tools/msi/testrelease.bat script, but apparently also for the embeddable distro).

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