New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: $ PYTHONIOENCODING= ./python Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams LookupError: unknown encoding: Aborted (core dumped)
As a consequence we can't set only the error handler. $ PYTHONIOENCODING=:surrogateescape ./python Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams LookupError: unknown encoding: Aborted (core dumped) Here is a patch which allows accepting empty encoding as default encoding. ---------- components: Interpreter Core files: empty_pythonioencoding.patch keywords: patch messages: 195946 nosy: haypo, ncoghlan, serhiy.storchaka priority: normal severity: normal stage: patch review status: open title: Empty PYTHONIOENCODING is not the same as nonexistent type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31432/empty_pythonioencoding.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18818> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
