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Always get `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'` error.

See original GitHub issue

I tried to use twitter-scraper. I ran the command described in the README:

pipenv install twitter-scraper

I got this error back:

❯ pipenv install twitter-scraper
Installing twitter-scraper…
⠇
Error:  An error occurred while installing twitter-scraper!
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x00007fff793b5000 (most recent call first):

I searched online for ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings' and could not find anything I could use to solve this.

Describe your environment

OS Type: macOS
Python version: Python 3.7.0b1
Pipenv version: version 10.0.0

Expected result

pipenv works and doesn’t throw that error.

Actual result

~/dev/testing/py-test
❯ pipenv install twitter-scraper --verbose
Installing twitter-scraper…
⠋Installing 'twitter-scraper'
$ "/Users/nikivi/.local/share/virtualenvs/py-test-7jzMe1F-/bin/pip" install   --verbose   "twitter-scraper" -i https://pypi.python.org/simple --exists-action w
⠧
Error:  An error occurred while installing twitter-scraper!
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x00007fff793b5000 (most recent call first):

Steps to replicate

I ran pipenv install twitter-scraper. But it seems that in my case all instances of pipenv install are broken. Not sure what to do.

Thank you for any help.

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Created 6 years ago
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nikitavoloboevcommented, Feb 24, 2018

Okay, I realised my mistake. Apparently you cannot run pipenv in a directory that has other files. I ran the command in empty dir and everything worked.

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nikitavoloboevcommented, Feb 24, 2018

Hi @kennethreitz

I wanted to make sure I do actually have pipenv working as intended. Is this normal that if I have a .py file already in a directory, pipenv fails with that message of ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'?

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