From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9393 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2004 23:29:24 -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 9385 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2004 23:29:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.224.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2004 23:29:23 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AuK5B-0005Gn-00 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:29:21 +0100 Received: from 207.158.40.25 ([207.158.40.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri Feb 20 23:29:21 2004 Received: from tkarlsson by 207.158.40.25 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri Feb 20 23:29:21 2004 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Totte Karlsson" Subject: Re: python and cygwin Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 23:39:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <40369000.3B3EE444@dessent.net> Reply-To: "Totte Karlsson" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.158.40.25 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg01122.txt.bz2 OK, I see, However, it seems as if I can execute the win32 python interpreter from within the cygwin bash shell, and it seems to work as long the cygwin path come into play, which is "unfortunate". I thought the idea with cygwin was to provide unix tools working under windows, not to make windows into unix/posix? Now it looks as if I need to have two sets of python running, one for cygwin and one for windows, and both are running in windows! It is something fishy with that I think..? "Brian Dessent" wrote in message news:40369000.3B3EE444@dessent.net... > 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/