Before today, I only had a Python37-32 directory when it comes to python. I had to install python 2.7 for something, and now everything has broken.
After downloading the latest python release and clicking "update current installation" (or something along these lines), I was expecting I would have my old python back. However, I am now missing all of my imports. When trying to reinstall them with py -m pip install <package>, I ran into this:
Fatal Python error: initfsencoding: unable to load the file system codec
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'
Whenever I typed "py" into my VScode terminal (and normal command prompt), I would get this error. What have I accidentally done to mess up everything?
I didn't "fix" my problem
I decided I should uninstall both Python2.7 and Python3.7, then reinstall the latest version. I have. It's working fine now, albeit I will need to reinstall many packages!
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I installed python 3.9 at first, but I wanted to use TensorFlow so I deleted and install python 3.8.7 and it worked out. But now every time I try to run <python --version> command it says that there is a python39.dll missing even though I have my python38.dll file already
Well, I resolved the problem just by uninstalling every python program on the computer and reinstalling everything, I'm not quite sure what was causing that error but now everything is alright.
I have a super barebones airgapped machine.
It has the Python3.6.6.tar.gz from the website. It has no access to outside sources. It has no ability to use yum or pip as they're not on here.
What is the best method for getting Python3.6 installed onto here without having to transfer files over?
Edit -
I've tried
./configure
make ( or make install or make altinstall )
When I go to run python3.6 I get
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'
I've tried changing export PYTHONHOME to /usr/local/ with no luck, though that did clear up a previous error related to it
I am using Anaconda3 5.2.0 for Windows 10 64 bit, which is python 3.6.5 (Anaconda3-5.2.0-Windows-x86_64.exe). I have installed this into C:\Anaconda3 and then from the anaconda prompt installed basemap:
conda install -c conda-forge basemap
conda install -c conda-forge basemap-data-files
I have used this to start building map files and everything is working fine. I then wanted to add a raster to the map using georaster.
conda install -c conda-forge georaster
This also installs gdal.
When I open Jupyter Notebook and enter the line
import georaster
I get the following error message:
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
I have tried various solutions that I have seen for related issues including installing a gdal update, fiona, and geopandas. None of these change the message.
I tried installing gdal using the binaries .whl file in conda, but despite following the advice (which said to use pip) I was not able to make it work.
pip install GDAL-2.2.4-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl
resulted in an error message:
GDAL-2.2.4-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.
Finally I went looking to see if I could locate the missing DLL manually. I saw one user suggest libtiff.dll was the missing file, and indeed it was one I did not have. I downloaded it and copied it into the System32 and SysWOW64 folders. This still resulted in an error but changed the error message:
ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
However I could not find a way to stop the error from occurring. I followed the steps to register the .dll but that also had an error message from not found to not supported:
(cmd prompt in administrator mode)
regsvr32.exe /i libtiff.dll
The module "libtiff.dll" failed to load.
Make sure the binary is stored at the specified path or debug it to check for problems with the binary or dependent .DLL files.
The specified module could not be found.
I have tried downloading from 2 other websites, neither with any success. It is feeling like every method I attempt now just hits some weird error that nobody else is seeming to have and I don't understand why.
If anyone could offer some advice I'd be very appreciative. Thank you in advance.
downloading the required *.whl file(GDAL-2.2.4-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl) from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#gdal and then copying it to a location like C:\GDAL-2.2.4-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
then pip install c:\GDAL-2.2.4-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
worked for me.
Thanks.
I'm running python 3.6 via anaconda 3, using Visual Studio Code.
I followed instructions like these (Interactive Brokers API install) and downloaded the package to a local directory of mine say: c:\dev\pyib, so now the code is in c:\dev\pyib\IbPy-master
I open that directory in command line and run
python setup.py install
All runs ok.
But then my program, which is in c:\dev\pyib says Module not found. (In my case ibapi). The linter is also showing red.
There is no other python installed on this pc.
Where did the package install to? and how do I check that? What will I find where the package installed itself to that shows me its there?
Or do I have to use a trial-and-error with the linter and sys.path.append()? (I tried that with the directory where the files are downloaded to - to no avail)
I'm trying to set up the PYTHONPATH using the "env" in launch.json from Visual Studio Code, as shown in this unaccepted answer.
Current sys.path:
'c:\\dev\\pyIb',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\python36.zip',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\DLLs',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\lib',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-
packages',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\Babel-2.5.0-py3.6.egg',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\win32',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib',
'C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin'
I deleted the ib directory and re-ran the install. The last line says: Writing C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\IbPy2-0.8.0-py3.6.egg-info So is the location of the egg-info the location of my undetected module? The actual folder in the site-packages is called ib.
Or could my problems be because of a difference in Lib vs. lib with the lowercase in the sys.path and the uppercase in the actual directory?
But the real question here is still: HOW DO I KNOW WHERE the package was installed what should I search for?
This answer is specific for anaconda3 Python and packages installed using python setup.py install (which is actually using distutils)
Take a look at anaconda3\Lib\site-packages you should see a directory for the package you installed.
The way to know for sure where your package is, is by doing a pip list then trying to pip uninstall and re-install again using the python setup.py install: Here are the detailed instructions:
When uninstalling, pip will tell you it cannot because it was done via distutils.
You'll get a message like this:
DEPRECATION: Uninstalling a distutils installed project (ibpy2) has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
This is due to the fact that uninstalling a distutils project will only partially uninstall the project.
You'll be prompted to continue anyway. If you choose No, then you can find the directory in
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages
Thanks to Emanuel Mtali for pointing me in the right direction
Some more information:
The problem I had was due to a stupid mistake of mine. I was running setup of a different (but related) package not used anymore. IbPy2 instead of TwsAPI. I was supposed to run the setup.py of the package installed via the latest version of the MSI from IB, and NOT the IbPy2 package. :-(
I had python 2.7 before and then I installed python 3.4.The OS is windows 10
I have renamed
C:\python27\python.exe to python2.exe (when I run python2 --version it shows correct version)
and
C:\python34\python.exe to python3.exe (when I run python3 --version it shows correct version)
I have set the path variable manually and there is no space etc.
I was trying to create a virtual environment and assign python34 to this new environment.
I was going through this SO reference -- Using VirtualEnv with multiple Python versions on windows
prompt>> virtualenv -p c:\Python34\python3.exe casenv
But I got an error--
Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '"'
Do I need to install virtualenv again for python34 or somewhere I need to set virtualenv path for each python installation.
Any help is highly welcomed.
In my case, i had installed python 3.6 and uninstalled python 2.7 when i got this error.
Completely deleting the C:\Python2.7 directory did the trick.
This error is usually caused because of python directory of different versions stored at same location.
i.e in my case I was using python 3.5.X for development and when I updated to 3.7.6 I got this error.
People on internet suggest that it is because of pip but main cause is 2 or more python directory.
The following steps should fix it:
Uninstall previous python version (or use virtual environment if you want to play with multiple python version)
Delete the python directory you are not using (as it causes confusion for terminal to understand which python path it should pick to execute the command)
and this should fix the error of
fatal error in launcher unable to create process using ' '
Pip version: 10.0.0
Python version: 3.6.5 64 bit
Operating system: Windows 7 Ultimate, Service Pack 1, 64-bit
Description:
After upgrading pip to the version 10.0.0 (from Pycharm, that is using pip as a package) any attempts to start updated pip cause an error:
Fatal error in launcher: Unable to create process using '""c:\program files\python 3.6\python.exe" "C:\Program Files\Python 3.6\Scripts\pip.EXE"'
Command python -m pip works as expected.
I found text "Fatal error in launcher" only in executables:
src\pip_vendor\distlib\t32.exe
src\pip_vendor\distlib\t64.exe
and in the pip.exe itself.
After
python -m pip uninstall pip
easy_install.exe pip
error disappeared.
It is interesting, that initially pip.exe had almost the same size as t64.exe, now it significantly shorter.
If someone came after installing a newer version like 3.X and uninstalled the older version, what you need to do is to delete the old version's folder from C Drive.
Clean Fix (Windows)
The fastest way to fix the issue you were facing is to uninstall and reinstall.
Why it happened?
You probably moved the directory where python was installed.
You probably have both environmental variables listed in Environmental Variables.
Things to consider
You can only use 1 active version of python at a time if you use the MSI installer.
If you downloaded the zip file of Python, you can have unlimited versions in your computer BUT you can only have 1 active version under Environmental Variables.
You can always use any version of Python explicitly by writing the direct path to the specific location of the version of Python.