From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15170 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2004 22:53:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 15162 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2004 22:53:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dessent.net) (66.227.14.169) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2004 22:53:55 -0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dessent.net) by dessent.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AuJaL-0000v0-DZ for cygwin@cygwin.com; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:57:29 +0000 Message-ID: <40369000.3B3EE444@dessent.net> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 23:20:00 -0000 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: python and cygwin References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg01118.txt.bz2 Totte Karlsson wrote: > > Seems as if I got it working by downloading python "for cygwin"?. I already > had python for windows installed and I thought cygwin would used that one > automatically? Guess one has to set it up somewhere? The win32 python and the Cygwin python are completely seperate and different. They do not share anything or "use each other". One is compiled for a unix/posix environment, the other for a win32 one. The same is true for Perl, with Cygwin perl vs. Activestate perl. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/