Comments on: Using win32 python from cygwin

By: Mike Pennington

Mike Pennington — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:15:10 +0000

This is great info… I like the bash script, but it doesn’t handle standalone “python” calls into the interpreter. Right now, I have to remember to type “python -i” when I call into the interpreter… btw, if you haven’t already noticed, the win32 interpreter hangs if you hit as you would normally under cygwin. I’ve found that ‘quit()’ is a great cross-platform workaround to get out of the interpreter… works everywhere I’ve tried it (Windows, BSD, Linux, Cygwin).

By: AnandAnand

AnandAnand — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:21:19 +0000

Maybe an easier way is to just copy the python executable to system32 folder — cygwin seems to recognize this automatically!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:44:08 +0000

Works for me. I used the same method for my perl stuff too. Haven’t been able to break it. Thanks.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:08:24 +0000

Welcome! I figured this might be useful to others As a side note, you can basically take this script as-is and use it for any win32 command you want to call directly from cygwin (just change the command string at the bottom). Enjoy!

By: Jonathan Hartley

Jonathan Hartley — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:57:14 +0000

A quantum of genius. Thank you.