Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Interactrive Python under Cygwin in Win7 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 20:39:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1365453561 3240 64.122.56.22 (8 Apr 2013 20:39:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 20:39:21 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:43091 On 2013-04-08, David Robinow wrote: > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I just installed ActiveState 2.7 64-bit on a Windows 7 machine running >> a current version of Cygwin. While python programs (both GUI and >> text-mode) run fine, I'm unable to use Python interactively from >> either the Cygwin terminal or in an ssh session. I tried adding the >> "-u" option, but that makes no difference. Interactive C-Python just >> hangs on startup. >> >> Is this bug specific to ActiveState Python, or is it also present in >> the vanilla C-Python build for Windows? > > It's present in the "vanilla" build. I assume you're running mintty > as I do. That's what I usually run when I'm not ssh'ed in. > I just use the cygwin build for fooling around with python, and > [WARNING: hold your nose] the cmd shell when I need Windows Python. Yea, that's what I finally fell back on. At least it has command line recall/editing, so it could be worse. I do almost all of my development on Linux and rarely do anything interactive under Windows, but once in a while it would be handy. > You can also use the (old-fashioned?) cygwin.bat do start cygwin > which doesn't give you as nice a terminal but does allow you to run > bash and "/c/Python27/Python" interactively. > > Another option, which I just discovered, is bash under msys. It's been a > while since I've used it so I can't remember the pro and con but you can > run an interactive Windows python. Oh yea, I had forgotten about msys. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm having an at emotional outburst!! gmail.com