Gabriel Genellina wrote: > En Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:31:06 -0200, Ross Ridge > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> If you're using the offficial Win32 port of Python than you probably >> want to use the Cygwin version because Win32 version doesn't support >> readline anyways. > > I don't understand the comment. Most of the readline functionality is > already present on Windows XP (command history, up/down arrows, edit entry > with left/right arrows, choose entry from list, autocompletion, separate > buffers for each program...). On earlier versions you only had to load > doskey.exe (or doskey.com) at startup, and the command had existed from > jurasic age... That Python on Windows doesn't support specifically the GNU > readline utility is irrelevant. > Until you try to do something like a reverse history search using CTRL/R, for example, and then the limitations of the XP command window start to become obvious.
But it's somewhat perverse to try to run standard Windows binaries under Cygwin. Though it is a fine environment you get into real trouble with things like filename completion, since the shell completes names in the Cygwin filename space, and the Windows binaries can't make head nor tail of something like /c/Python25/python.exe. That may well be why the Python interpreter isn't recognizing the sshd's pty as a terminal, too. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
