I got python cx freeze issue

Question

What's wrong in my application?

Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\ ~~~~~ \ Python36\lib\encodings\__init__.py", line 31, in <module>
  ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'codecs'

Answer 1

Update your cx_Freeze version to 5.1.1 or the latest version by running:

pip install cx_Freeze --upgrade 

and your error should fix.

This problem was fixed in the latest version as described on the cx_Freeze GitHub page: https://github.com/anthony-tuininga/cx_Freeze/issues/325