[Scons-users] Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec (Windows)

[R0b0t1]

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
> What platform?
> What version of SCons?
> What version of Python?
>
> -Bill
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 1:13 AM, R0b0t1 <r030t1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The full text is:
>>
>> ```
>> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
>> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'
>>
>> Current thread 0x00000e20 (most recent call first):
>> ```
>>
>> I did some searching and briefly thought it may be an issue with
>> Python for Windows but that does not seem the case - I am able to
>> invoke the interpreter directly with no issue
>> (https://bugs.python.org/issue27054).
>>

I apologize for the double post - I have no idea why that happened.

Platform is Windows 10 x86_64.
SCons version is 2.5.1, I installed using the executable from
http://scons.org/pages/download.html.
Python is version 3.6.1.