On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>wrote:
> I just installed ActiveState 2.7 64-bit on a Windows 7 machine running > a current version of Cygwin. While python programs (both GUI and > text-mode) run fine, I'm unable to use Python interactively from > either the Cygwin terminal or in an ssh session. I tried adding the > "-u" option, but that makes no difference. Interactive C-Python just > hangs on startup. > > Is this bug specific to ActiveState Python, or is it also present in > the vanilla C-Python build for Windows? > > It's present in the "vanilla" build. I assume you're running mintty as I do. I just use the cygwin build for fooling around with python, and [WARNING: hold your nose] the cmd shell when I need Windows Python. You can also use the (old-fashioned?) cygwin.bat do start cygwin which doesn't give you as nice a terminal but does allow you to run bash and "/c/Python27/Python" interactively. Another option, which I just discovered, is bash under msys. It's been a while since I've used it so I can't remember the pro and con but you can run an interactive Windows python.
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