Re: Problems with lyx command line in WIN32/Cygwin environment

[Colin J. Williams]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:
He Jin wrote:
Hi everybody,
I found a very strange problem in win32/cygwin environment using lyx 
commandline.

When I try to translate a lyx file into .tex format using command 
line "lyx --export latex YYY.lyx", it reported as following:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "e:/lyx/lyx/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", line 18, in ?
   import getopt, sys, string, re
ImportError: No module named getopt
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ERROR!
An error occured while running the conversion script.
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It sounds like the installation of LyX win32 lacked some module named 
"getopt" but I found getopt.py and getopt.pyc in
the e:/lyx/lyx/bin/lib/ directory.

Sounds like a path problem (the Python files are there but Python 
can't find them).

Besides, some other files could be translated smoothly

From a command line, starting in the same directory?
and if I use the "export" option in LyX GUI, the YYY.lyx could also 
be sucessfully
translated into YYY.tex.

Anybody could give some hints ?
Best regards,
He Jin

-- Paul
This worked Ok for me.  Python 2.3 is my default.
   C:\LyX\Tex\Files>..\..\lyx\bin\lyx --export latex M1.lyx M1.tex
   ----------------------------------------
   Cannot open specified file:
   M1.tex
   Create new document with this name?
   Assuming answer is yes
   ----------------------------------------
   Document exported as LaTeX to file `C:/LyX/Tex/Files/M1.tex'
   C:\LyX\Tex\Files>dir M*.*
    Volume in drive C is Root Directory
    Volume Serial Number is 008B-9A21
    Directory of C:\LyX\Tex\Files
   04-08-17  12:41 PM            16,586 m1.lyx
   04-08-17  12:35 PM            16,340 m1.lyx~
   04-08-17  19:36 PM            12,132 M1.tex
   04-08-13  09:38 AM             3,453 M2.lyx
   04-08-13  08:37 AM             2,397 M2.lyx~
   04-08-17  08:34 AM             1,781 M3.LyX
   04-08-16  20:44 PM             1,859 M3.LyX~
   04-08-16  20:55 PM             1,725 M4.LyX
                  8 File(s)         56,273 bytes
                  0 Dir(s)   2,343,645,184 bytes free
The output looks plausible, although I haven't yet found a way to 
convert this
to something legible.

Previously, I had tried to do a latex export of M1.lyx - no luck.
Colin W.