From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27873 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2004 02:36:58 -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 27866 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2004 02:36:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.224.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Feb 2004 02:36:57 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AuN0i-0007GM-00 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 03:36:56 +0100 Received: from isi-dialin-129-127.isionline-dialin.de ([195.158.129.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat Feb 21 02:36:56 2004 Received: from thorsten by isi-dialin-129-127.isionline-dialin.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat Feb 21 02:36:56 2004 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: python and cygwin Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 02:38:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <40369000.3B3EE444@dessent.net> <1amf6c54ignfm.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: isi-dialin-129-127.isionline-dialin.de User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.10.1de X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg01140.txt.bz2 * Totte Karlsson (2004-02-21 02:45 +0100) > When I open up a "cygwin-bash" on windows, I just thought that I > could use my already installed "win-32" python. I realize now that > you can't As I already told you in my answer: You *can* with a little effort. Python as a multiplatform scripting language is even better suited for that as any other Windows tool/program. > and I think that creates problems. As a programmer I don't like do > have to duplicate things. I only want one "repository". When you install Zope for instance on Windows you have to make some effort to use an existing Python installation and not the Python interpreter that comes with Zope. Same with Cygwin. Thorsten -- 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/