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Re: Cygwin and Python3

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Cygwin and Python3
Date 2016-02-10 16:59 -0500
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On 2/10/2016 4:26 PM, Benoit Izac wrote:
> Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> writes:

>> Since Python runs natively in Windows, why are you trying to run it
>> with Cygwin? I'm not implying that you shouldn't, just offhand I don't
>> see a reason for it.
>
> I do it because it's easier to install third party packages, those that
> need an external library to run. Cygwin come with a lot of lib* and
> lib*-devel that permit to just run `pip install xxx' if not already
> packaged. I gave a try on the native Windows version and Anaconda but
> there is at least one package that I could not run (and I loosed
> a lot of time to compile a bunch of libraries).
>
> Example of package: pyproj (proj4), openpyxl with lxml (libxml2,
> libxslt) and pillow (libjpeg, zlib, libtiff, ...), psycopg2 (libpq).

I belive these are all available at
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Cygwin and Python3 Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-02-09 11:41 -0500
  Re: Cygwin and Python3 alvin.hacopian@gmail.com - 2016-02-09 11:29 -0800
    Re: Cygwin and Python3 Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-02-09 15:19 -0500
      Re: Cygwin and Python3 alvin.hacopian@gmail.com - 2016-02-09 12:30 -0800
        Re: Cygwin and Python3 Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-02-09 16:47 -0500
          Re: Cygwin and Python3 Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-02-09 17:36 -0500
  Re: Cygwin and Python3 Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-09 19:26 -0800
    Re: Cygwin and Python3 Mike S <mscir@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-09 19:39 -0800
      Re: Cygwin and Python3 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-02-10 13:05 +0000
        Re: Cygwin and Python3 Mike S <mscir@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-10 15:05 -0800
          Re: Cygwin and Python3 blindanagram@nowhere.net - 2016-02-11 07:46 +0000
            Re: Cygwin and Python3 Mike S <mscir@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-11 01:21 -0800
            Re: Cygwin and Python3 Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-02-11 13:20 +0000
    Re: Cygwin and Python3 Benoit Izac <use.reply.to@INVALID.ADDRESS> - 2016-02-10 22:26 +0100
      Re: Cygwin and Python3 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-02-10 16:59 -0500
        Re: Cygwin and Python3 Benoit Izac <use.reply.to@INVALID.ADDRESS> - 2016-02-11 19:18 +0100
          Re: Cygwin and Python3 alvin.hacopian@gmail.com - 2016-02-11 12:40 -0800

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