[issue7496] python does not work in command prompt

R. David Murray added the comment: As Benjamin points out, this is a duplicate of issue 1616979, which has been fixed in both trunk and py3k. For future reference, Mohammad, a search with the string 'cp720' and 'status' set to 'don't care' would have brought up that bug report. The tracker's d

[issue7496] python does not work in command prompt

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: See #1616979. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing lis

[issue7496] python does not work in command prompt

Brett Cannon added the comment: Your OS is using an encoding called cp720 which Python knows nothing about. That means it can't open stdout, stderr, or stdin properly for reading/writing according to your set codec. You need to use a codec recognized by Python or add support for your codec to

[issue7496] python does not work in command prompt

New submission from mohammad : when i type python in my command promp this message is shown : C:\Documents and Settings\X>python Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams LookupError: unknown encoding: cp720 This application has requested the Runtime to terminate