3592474 - Execution of hdbalm Command Fails With Error: Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams

You installed HANA client and when executing hdbalm commands, it fails with errors like below:

/usr/sap/hdbclient> ./hdbalm
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sap/<SID>/HDB<instance no>/exe/Python3/lib/python3.8/abc.py", line 64, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_abc'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sap/<SID>/HDB<instance no>/exe/Python3/lib/python3.8/io.py", line 52, in <module>
  File "/usr/sap/<SID>/HDB<instance no>/exe/Python3/lib/python3.8/abc.py", line 68, in <module>
  File "/usr/sap/<SID>/HDB<instance no>/exe/Python3/lib/python3.8/_py_abc.py", line 35
    def __new__(mcls, name, bases, namespace, /, **kwargs):
                                              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sap/<SID>/HDB<instance no>/exe/Python3/lib/python3.8/abc.py", line 64, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_abc'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sap/<SID>/HDB<instance no>/exe/Python3/lib/python3.8/io.py", line 52, in <module>
  File "/usr/sap/<SID>/HDB<instance no>/exe/Python3/lib/python3.8/abc.py", line 68, in <module>
  File "/usr/sap/<SID>/HDB<instance no>/exe/Python3/lib/python3.8/_py_abc.py", line 35
    def __new__(mcls, name, bases, namespace, /, **kwargs):
                                              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
./hdbalm: line 36: [: -eq: unary operator expected
./hdbalm: line 38: [: -eq: unary operator expected
No supported python version found.
Install the latest version of Python 3.6 or later.
See SAP note 2990848.
After the installation of Python set the environment variable

PYTHON_HOME

to the location of the Python installation
or set the environment variable

PYTHON_EXE

to the location of the Python executable.
As an example the command (bourne shell) is

export PYTHON_HOME=/usr/python3

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• SAP HANA, platform edition 1.0
• SAP HANA, platform edition 2.0

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