Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.kar...@gmail.com> added the comment: I hope there are certain modules that CPython interpreter expects to load properly. There were some cases in the past where encodings module caused the interpreter to crash. A similar scenario.
➜ cpython git:(master) echo "raise Exception('a')" > encodings.py ➜ cpython git:(master) ✗ PYTHONPATH=: ./python.exe Fatal Python error: initfsencoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/karthikeyansingaravelan/stuff/python/cpython/encodings.py", line 1, in <module> Exception: a [1] 29005 abort PYTHONPATH=: ./python.exe ---------- nosy: +xtreak _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35969> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com