RV: CodecRegistryError problem for an IDE.

Dieter Maurer dieter at handshake.de
Sat May 16 12:56:36 EDT 2020


Bryan Cabrera Ramírez wrote at 2020-5-15 19:53 +0200:
>   I'm trying to insall an INET package for an IDE called OMNeT++ and when
>   I try to build the INET the following happens in the command window:
>
>   Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
>     File "C:\Python27\Lib\encodings\__init__.py", line 123
>       raise CodecRegistryError,\
>                               ^
>   SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
>   I did python repair from the setup installer but it still doesn't work.
>
>   Do you know what should I do in order to solve the problem ?

Apparently, a Python version 3 interpreter is used but it finds
a Python version 2 library. Those versions cannot mix.

I cannot tell you how this mix came into being.
I would try to uninstall Python and then reinstall freshly
Python 3.


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