Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams

[lucabrasi]

On Saturday, June 15, 2013 3:10:07 PM UTC-7, alex23 wrote:
> On Jun 16, 7:29 am, lucabrasi... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > I get this error when I try to save .dxf files in Inkscape:
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> > Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
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> > Then it seems to recover but it doesn't really recover. It saves the files and then DraftSite won't open them. Here is what the  > thing says when Inkscape tried to fix the saving problem.
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> What do you mean by "Inkscape tried to fix the saving problem"?
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> > File "D:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape\python\Lib\encodings\__init__.py", line 123
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> > raise CodecRegistryError,\
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> > ^
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> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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> Here's a report of a similar issue with Blender (which also provides a
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> local install of Python under Windows):
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> http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://blenderclan.tuxfamily.org/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php%3Ftopic_id%3D36497&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dinkscape%2BCodecRegistryError
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> (Sorry for the ugly url, it's a Google translation of a french
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> language page)
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> Do you have a separate installation of Python? It's possible it may be
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> conflicting. If you rename it's folder to something else (which will
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> temporarily break that install), do you still see this same issue in
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> Inkscape?

Inkscape told me to not worry about the problem.  That somehow it had made a mistake and then it showed a little window with this information.
> File "D:\Program Files (x86)\Inkscape\python\Lib\encodings\__init__.py", line 123
> raise CodecRegistryError,\
> ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax 

I said Inkscape but maybe it is system message and not from Inkscape.
I will try your suggestions now, and thanks to everyone for responding so quickly.