az login Fatal Python error: Failed to import encodings module

[mjain36]

Describe the bug

I am getting following error when installed AzureCLI. I reinstalled AzureCLI and restarted computer as well but nothing worked. Same issue happening on any az command run.

Fatal Python error: Failed to import encodings module
Python runtime state: core initialized
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "encodings_init_.py", line 33, in
ImportError: cannot import name 'aliases' from partially initialized module 'encodings' (most likely due to a circular import) (C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\python313.zip\encodings_init_.pyc)

Related command

az -v
az login

Errors

Fatal Python error: Failed to import encodings module
Python runtime state: core initialized
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "encodings_init_.py", line 33, in
ImportError: cannot import name 'aliases' from partially initialized module 'encodings' (most likely due to a circular import) (C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\CLI2\python313.zip\encodings_init_.pyc)

Issue script & Debug output

debug out put also show same error

Expected behavior

It should show azure version and allow login

Environment Summary

azure-cli python313

Additional context

No response

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[aki-matleb]

I've got a similar issue, when trying to login or even just showing the version (az -v) :
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/__main__.py", line 13, in <module> File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/core/telemetry.py", line 19, in <module> File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\azure/cli/telemetry/__init__.py", line 9, in <module> File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\portalocker/__init__.py", line 4, in <module> File "D:\a\_work\1\s\build_scripts\windows\artifacts\cli\Lib\site-packages\portalocker/portalocker.py", line 11, in <module> ImportError: DLL load failed while importing win32file: The specified module could not be found.

Tried updating azure-cli with no luck.

thanks

[aki-matleb]

I used this comment to solve it: #32045 (comment)

[mjain36]

Solution provided by @aki-matleb worked. Closing this issue.