Thorsten Kampe wrote: > He was using /Windows/ Python in Cygwin *chuckle*... Windows Python > says Ctrl-Z because it doesn't know that it's been run from bash where > Ctrl-Z is for job control. > > And the lesson we learn from that: if you're using Windows Python use > a Windows shell. If you're using a Cygwin shell use Cygwin Python - > unless you know what you're doing (which he wasn't).
The reason I tried to do this: Cygwin python lacks _winreg, but I wanted to SSH into Cygwin to run this script. I suppose the folks who know what they are doing probably stick to wscript and WMI for this sort of stuff. Ben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
