"Khalid Al-Ghamdi" <emailkg...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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hi all,
I realize my question was previous question was phrased, well, vaguely, as
I
learn from your responses so here's version 2 of my question:
i'm running windows vista and have python 30 ,31 and 26 installed.!
when I try to run python form the command line by printing *python *to
whichever path i have there (in my case:C:\users\KE>) it runs python 30,
but
when i try to code something it just gives me a new line without any
processing of the code. (for example:2+2 returns a new line)
when I tried to change the path to the directory that contains python 31
and
enter *python (c:\python31>)*, it just crashes and gives me the following
message:
*fatal python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
*
*LookupError: unknown encoding: cp720*
*
*
*This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
way. *
*Please contact teh application's support team for more Information.*
*
*
When i change the directory to c:\python26 and then enter it works ok.
so can anyone tell me why this is happening?
PS: I learn from Alan Gauld's response that windows defaults to python30
when i enter python because in the system variables python30 was entered
first and I confirmed that that was true, but still python 30 doesn't
process my code and python 31 crashes.
My version of Python and Windows doesn't understand cp720. According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_720, it is a OEM Arabic code page.
The Windows-equivalent is 'cp1256'. I have Python 2.6 and it doesn't have a
codec for cp720, but does for cp1256.
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
u'abc'.encode('cp720')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
LookupError: unknown encoding: cp720
u'abc'.encode('cp1256')
'abc'
If you are running on an Arabic version of Windows, you might change the
console code page to 1256 and see if that works. Run 'chcp 1256' before
running 'python'.
-Mark
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