uWSGI and Python on Arch Linux, encoding failure

Question

I am running an Arch Linux box and have setup a Python 3.4 virtualenv.

I have a uwsgi vassal being run by the emperor, which specifies the following ini: (some snipped for brevity)

[uwsgi] virtualenv = /opt/lib/virtualenvs/bartek socket = /tmp/bartek.sock module = app callable = app plugins = python 

When I run this and view the uwsgi log file, I consistently get this:

uwsgi socket 0 bound to UNIX address /tmp/bartek.sock fd 3 Python version: 3.4.1 (default, May 19 2014, 17:23:49) [GCC 4.9.0 20140507 (prerelease)] Set PythonHome to /opt/lib/virtualenvs/bartek Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding ImportError: No module named 'encodings' 

This seems to be potentially related to the virtualenv? When I remove virtualenv from uwsgi config, it fails on missing packages instead of complaining about this encoding. I'd prefer to keep using a virtualenv, though!

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and I guess this is caused by the virtualenv parameter, when I changed the virtualenv to /, everything is OK.