Re: Cannot export connections / servers - pgAdmin4 4.24 (windows)

Hi Mark,

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 8:18 PM Rengert, Mark <mark(dot)rengert(at)redcom(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hello -
> I'm attempting to "dump servers" according to documentation at
> https://www.pgadmin.org/docs/pgadmin4/4.24/import_export_servers.html...
> I tried searching your archives for dump-servers but got "no hits". Seems
> unlikely, maybe something screwy with the search but there is no help
> anywhere that I can find.
>
> It fails with an error " ModuleNotFoundError: No module named
> 'encodings'". Any ideas what I am doing wrong? I did try setting the env
> variables PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH to several different things in the
> "\Program Files\pgAdmin 4\v4" tree but not sure what it wants, if that even
> matters. I do see the servers in the Web app.
>
> This is the pgAdmin4 v 4.24 Windows 64-bit version on Windows 10 added via
> the installer. I am not sure if I am running in "server or desktop mode"
> but probably desktop?
>
> C:\Users\redacted> "\Program Files\pgAdmin 4\v4\runtime\python.exe"
> "\Program Files\pgAdmin 4\v4\web\setup.py" --dump-servers pgservers.json
>
Please try with - "C:\Program Files\pgAdmin 4\v4\venv\Scripts\python.exe"
"C:\Program Files\pgAdmin 4\v4\web\setup.py" --dump-servers pgservers.json

> Python path configuration:
> PYTHONHOME = (not set)
> PYTHONPATH = (not set)
> program name = '\Program Files\pgAdmin 4\v4\runtime\python.exe'
> isolated = 0
> environment = 1
> user site = 1
> import site = 1
> sys._base_executable = 'C:\\Program Files\\pgAdmin
> 4\\v4\\runtime\\python.exe'
> sys.base_prefix = ''
> sys.base_exec_prefix = ''
> sys.executable = 'C:\\Program Files\\pgAdmin
> 4\\v4\\runtime\\python.exe'
> sys.prefix = ''
> sys.exec_prefix = ''
> sys.path = [
> 'C:\\Program Files\\pgAdmin 4\\v4\\runtime\\python38.zip',
> '.\\DLLs',
> '.\\lib',
> 'C:\\Program Files\\pgAdmin 4\\v4\\runtime',
> ]
> Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec
> of the filesystem encoding
> Python runtime state: core initialized
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'
>
> Current thread 0x00002640 (most recent call first):
> <no Python frame>
>
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Thanks,
Aditya Toshniwal
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