No module named 'encodings

[buhtz]

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The Elpy config buffer told me to report here about this problem.

This is the elpy config including the error report.

Elpy Configuration

Emacs.............: 27.1
Elpy..............: Not found (Python), 1.34.0 (Emacs Lisp)
Virtualenv........: None
Interactive Python: python 3.9.0 (c:/Users/Buhtzy/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python39/python.exe)
RPC virtualenv....: rpc-venv (c:/Users/Buhtzy/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/elpy/rpc-venv)
 Python...........: c:/WINDOWS/py.exe nil (c:/WINDOWS/py.exe)
 Jedi.............: Not found
 Rope.............: Not found
 Autopep8.........: Not found
 Yapf.............: Not found
 Black............: Not found
Syntax checker....: flake8.exe (c:/Program Files (x86)/Python37-32/Scripts/flake8.exe)

Warnings

You have not activated a virtual env. While Elpy supports this, it is
often a good idea to work inside a virtual env. You can use M-x
pyvenv-activate or M-x pyvenv-workon to activate a virtual env.

The Python interpreter could not find the elpy module. Please report
to: https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy/issues/new.

There was an unexpected problem starting the RPC process. Please check
the following output to see if this makes sense to you. To me, it
doesn't.

Fatal Python error: initfsencoding: unable to load the file system codec
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x00001fbc (most recent call first):


Elpy could not connect to Pypi (or at least not quickly enough) and
check if the python packages were up-to-date. You can still try to
update all of them:

I am using Win 10. Python is installed but I do not understand why (see line 4) elpy does not find it. But Line 6 shows the correct Python interpreter. I am confused.

And about the missing encodings module. There is also a (for me) unknown problem. Here you see the PowerShell output.

py -3 -m pip install encodings
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement encodings
ERROR: No matching distribution found for encodings

This is my init.el.

;; .emacs.d/init.el

;; ===================================
;; MELPA Package Support
;; ===================================

;; Enables basic packaging support
(require 'package)

;; Adds the Melpa archive to the list of available repositories
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") t)

;; Initializes the package infrastructure
(package-initialize)

;; If there are no archived package contents, refresh them

(when (not package-archive-contents)
  (package-refresh-contents))

;; Installs packages
;;
;; myPackages contains a list of package names
(defvar myPackages
  '(better-defaults                 ;; Set up some better Emacs defaults
    elpy                            ;; Python Support
    material-theme                  ;; Theme
    evil
    )
  )

;; Scans the list in myPackages
;; If the package listed is not already installed, install it
(mapc #'(lambda (package)
          (unless (package-installed-p package)
            (package-install package)))
      myPackages)

;; ===================================
;; Basic Customization
;; ===================================

(setq inhibit-startup-message t)    ;; Hide the startup message
(load-theme 'material t)            ;; Load material theme
(global-linum-mode t)               ;; Enable line numbers globally
(setq make-backup-files nil)

;; Recent files
(recentf-mode 1)
(setf recentf-max-menu-items 20)
(setf recentf-max-saved-items 20)
(global-set-key "\C-x\ \C-r" 'recentf-open-files)
(run-at-time nil (* 5 60) 'recentf-save-list)

;; ===================
;; Evil mode
;; ===================
(require 'evil)
(evil-mode t)

;; =========================
;; Elpy/Python Environment
;; =========================
(elpy-enable)
;;(setq python-shell-interpreter "py"
;;      python-shell-interpreter-args "-3 -i")
(cd "C:/Users/Buhtzy/")
;; User-Defined init.el ends here
(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 )
(custom-set-faces
 ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(default ((t (:family "Fira Mono" :foundry "outline" :slant normal :weight normal :height 120 :width normal)))))

[galaunay]

it looks like elpy is trying to use c:/WINDOWS/py.exe as a python interpreter. Two things you can try:

• reinstall the rpc with elpy-rpc-reinstall-virtualenv
• if it does not work, try using (setq elpy-rpc-virtualenv-path 'current)

It may help !

[buhtz]

What is "RPC"? Remote procedure call? And you write about virtualenv. I do not use a virtual environment. This is explicite deactivated in elpy.