On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 2:52 AM Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > At 03:40 last night it suddenly started throwing the following error every > time it ran:- > > Fatal Python error: initfsencoding: Unable to get the locale encoding > LookupError: unknown encoding: UTF-8 > > Current thread 0xb6f8db40 (most recent call first): > Aborted > > Running the program from the command line produced the same error. > Restarting the Pi system has fixed the problem. >
This error means Python can not find its standard libraries. There are some possibilities. * You set the wrong PYTHONHOME PYTHONHOME is very rarely useful. It shouldn't be used if you can not solve this kind of problem. * Your Python installation is broken. Some files are deleted or overwritten. You need to *clean* install Python again. Bets, -- Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
