# No module named 'encodings'
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/no-module-named-encodings/6451
**Category:** In Situ Support
**Created:** [February 12, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/no-module-named-encodings/6451 "2021-02-12T12:47:21Z")
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### Author:  [@zhe](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/zhe)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/no-module-named-encodings/6451/1 "2021-02-12T12:47:21Z")
Hello,
I tried to execute the python script by Catalyst, but I got this error message, could you provide some ideas to solve it? Thanks for your help!
```auto
Could not find platform independent libraries
Could not find platform dependent libraries
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to [:]
Fatal Python error: initfsencoding: Unable to get the locale encoding
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'
Current thread 0x00002aaaaab9e840 (most recent call first):
Loguru caught a signal: SIGABRT
Stack trace:
15 0x20002d8a /global/cscratch1/sd/zw241/build_monavtk/./example/MandelbulbCatalystExample/MandelbulbDynamic() [0x20002d8a]
14 0x2aaab65f334a __libc_start_main + 234
13 0x20002c51 /global/cscratch1/sd/zw241/build_monavtk/./example/MandelbulbCatalystExample/MandelbulbDynamic() [0x20002c51]
12 0x200062d1 /global/cscratch1/sd/zw241/build_monavtk/./example/MandelbulbCatalystExample/MandelbulbDynamic() [0x200062d1]
11 0x2aaaab2f36ab InSitu::MonaInitialize(std::string const&) + 91
10 0x2aaaad08b5cb vtkCPPythonScriptPipeline::New() + 27
9 0x2aaaad08b589 vtkCPPythonScriptPipeline::vtkCPPythonScriptPipeline() + 9
8 0x2aaaad08b0f1 vtkCPPythonPipeline::vtkCPPythonPipeline() + 33
7 0x2aaaad08a920 /global/cscratch1/sd/zw241/build_paraview_matthieu/lib64/libvtkPVPythonCatalyst-pv5.8.so.1(+0x5920) [0x2aaaad08a920]
6 0x2aaab25fd56c vtkPythonInterpreter::Initialize(int) + 684
5 0x2aaaab1ec7fd Py_InitializeEx + 148
4 0x2aaaab1eaf05 Py_FatalError + 0
3 0x2aaaab1eae97 /global/cscratch1/sd/zw241/build_monavtk/example/MandelbulbCatalystExample/libCatalystMandelbulbAdaptor.so(+0xe1e97) [0x2aaaab1eae97]
2 0x2aaab6609b01 abort + 337
1 0x2aaab6608520 gsignal + 272
0 0x2aaab2a502d0 /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x132d0) [0x2aaab2a502d0]
( 0.569s) [pvbatch] :0 FATL| Signal: SIGABRT
```
The python3 looks good if I execute it in the command line:
```auto
Python 3.7.4 (default, Aug 13 2019, 20:35:49)
[GCC 7.3.0] :: Anaconda, Inc. on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
```