Message 136668 - Python tracker
Gave it a go: the prompt appears, but none of the functions work thereafter C:\Users\PWTD>c:\Python27\python -S Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Nov 27 2010, 18:30:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 >>> print "hello" LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding >>>