* Ben Collver (Fri, 04 May 2007 06:40:50 -0700) > 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.
No, they stick to Python and WMI for this sort of stuff: http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
