Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
lucabrasi
lucabrasi154 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 15 22:44:09 EDT 2013
On Saturday, June 15, 2013 5:03:27 PM UTC-7, MRAB wrote:
> On 15/06/2013 23:10, alex23 wrote:
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> > 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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> >>
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> >> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
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> >>
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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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> >
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> > What do you mean by "Inkscape tried to fix the saving problem"?
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> >
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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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> >
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> To me that traceback looks like it's Python 3 trying to run code written
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> for Python 2.
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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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> >
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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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> >
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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?
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> >
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