python error in updated yum FC20

[Barry]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Barry wrote:
> I installed Fedora 20 yesterday, and after the installation was done, I
> installed a few packages successfully and then updated all the packages,
> and then shut down 
> 
> Today when I first turned on the machine, I tried installing the
> remaining stuff I want, and I got a python error, to wit:
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/i18n.py", line 1
> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xfb' in file
> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/i18n.py on line 2, but no encoding
> declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
> 
> I took a look at i18n.py, and it's a binary file, which couldn't be
> right. 
> 
> There's no i18n.pyo, but there is a i18n.pyc. 
> 
> It seems to me I might be able to reinstall python from the rpm, but I'm
> not sure about this.
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> 

I should have said reinstall yum, and I tried that after finding
yum-3.4.3-152.fc20.noarch.rpm but rpm failed to unpack the archive. 


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