I'm unable to build CPython from scratch on Linux because of inability to find encodings Module. What am I missing? – CentOS
I have an old Centos 7 system. It has one user [plus root] and has python2.7 and python3.6.8 installed. The latter has binary /bin/python3 Neither PYTHONHOME nor PYTHONPATH are defined. Python3 runs fine, for example, print(encodings.__file__) gives usr/lib64/python3.6/encodings/__init__.py but I…