Question

My favorite Python shell is DreamPie and I want to use it with Python 3.2. I’ve used the “add interpreter” DreamPie app and added Python 3.2. When opening the Python 3.2 DreamPie instance I get the following error message:

Indeed, Python 3.2 isn’t mentioned on the DreamPie website as supported, but I still want to know if there’s a way to make it work anyway.

Answer 1

A quick search of the DreamPie issues found Can’t launch python 3.2 which contains the following workaround in the first comment:

To fix the issue edit \dreampie\subp_main.py, replace:

sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

with:

import platform 
if not "3.2" in platform.python_version(): 
    sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

Tested on WindowsXP SP3, both Python2.7 and Python3.2 can be used with
this fix.

There are a number of other suggested workarounds in later comments.

Edit:

A fix for this issue has already been committed but is not in a stable release as far as I can tell.