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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Having trouble with a pip installed internet archive addon on Cygwin
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 05:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <592f9ff2-b96c-3927-dbb4-2bf01f1b29bd@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB4ZQx+JqaJEpZB+oew1EmuaRT89xYCXvtfwwEzphcTMCosF8Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 2019-06-23 21:03, Zeether wrote:
> I've been trying to run the internetarchive pip python script in Cygwin and
> when I try to enter "ia configure" to set up my Internet Archive account it
> hangs when I enter my email address instead of asking me for my password
> afterwards and I cannot continue. I'm not sure what to do because it works
> fine on the Windows command line but not on Cygwin. Please help!

If you are mixing Cygwin and Windows Python or PEX, you will have issues.
It sounds like you are running a Windows console program which does not work on
Cygwin ptys without using an interface like winpty.
What steps did you take with which console and python to install pex and ia?

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      reply	other threads:[~2019-06-24  5:02 UTC|newest]

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2019-06-24  3:03 Zeether
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