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Plover won't launch in windows with PYTHONHOME variable set to edb directory

Open NickLargey opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Describe the bug

Plover won't launch after installing either the Windows Installer or Portable zip. After deleting PYTHONHOME variable Plover will launch.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Download either Windows install method
  2. Follow installation guide
  3. Run plover from shortcut or run plover_console.exe from CMD line to get error message

Expected behavior

Plover will not launch

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Operating system OS: Windows 10 Plover Version: 4.0.0.dev12

  • OS: [e.g. Windows 10, Ubuntu 20.04, macOS Catalina]
  • Plover Version [e.g. 3.x, 4.x, weekly]

NickLargey avatar Oct 26 '22 17:10 NickLargey

Weird case, but it would make sense for the launcher to hard code Python environments (sys.path?) to point to Plover's Python distribution.

user202729 avatar Oct 26 '22 18:10 user202729