Re: Command line prompt broken on XP with Python 2.5 - help!

2007-02-16 Thread Endless Story
On Feb 16, 11:51 am, "Endless Story" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did add c:/cywgin to the path, don't remember why now. Having looked at the Cygwin user manual, I think I probably did this as the result of misunderstanding the installation process. A PATH variable is needed, but it can go into

Re: Command line prompt broken on XP with Python 2.5 - help!

2007-02-16 Thread Endless Story
On Feb 16, 11:51 am, "Endless Story" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 16, 11:34 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It sounds like you may have mistakenly added Cygwin binary directories > > to your Windows path. This isn't normally necessary, since the Cygwin > > shell makes all n

Re: Command line prompt broken on XP with Python 2.5 - help!

2007-02-16 Thread Endless Story
On Feb 16, 11:34 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like you may have mistakenly added Cygwin binary directories > to your Windows path. This isn't normally necessary, since the Cygwin > shell makes all necessary path adjustments as it starts. I did add c:/cywgin to the path,

Re: Command line prompt broken on XP with Python 2.5 - help!

2007-02-16 Thread Endless Story
On Feb 16, 11:34 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Endless Story wrote: > > On Feb 16, 10:29 am, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I would ask if you had *any* other Python installation > >> -- say a cygwin one -- which might just be getting in the way? > > > It's a cygwin prob

Re: Command line prompt broken on XP with Python 2.5 - help!

2007-02-16 Thread Steve Holden
Endless Story wrote: > On Feb 16, 10:29 am, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would ask if you had *any* other Python installation >> -- say a cygwin one -- which might just be getting in the way? > > It's a cygwin problem, guddammit. I was wondering if this might be the > case - I should

Re: Command line prompt broken on XP with Python 2.5 - help!

2007-02-16 Thread Endless Story
On Feb 16, 10:29 am, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would ask if you had *any* other Python installation > -- say a cygwin one -- which might just be getting in the way? It's a cygwin problem, guddammit. I was wondering if this might be the case - I should have mentioned in my initial p

Re: Command line prompt broken on XP with Python 2.5 - help!

2007-02-16 Thread Tim Golden
Endless Story wrote: > On Feb 16, 9:56 am, "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Feb 16, 5:52 am, "Endless Story" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are you talking about the Environment Variables-->System Variable-->path? >> You may want to right click on My Computer-->System Properties-->Advanced-->

Re: Command line prompt broken on XP with Python 2.5 - help!

2007-02-16 Thread Endless Story
On Feb 16, 9:56 am, "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 16, 5:52 am, "Endless Story" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you talking about the Environment Variables-->System Variable-->path? > You may want to right click on My Computer-->System Properties-->Advanced--> > Environment Variables-->

Re: Command line prompt broken on XP with Python 2.5 - help!

2007-02-16 Thread Jim
On Feb 16, 5:52 am, "Endless Story" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My last version of Python was 2.4, running smoothly on XP with path c: > \Python24 - no need even to include this path in PATH; everything > worked as it's supposed to at the command line. > > Just installed Python 2.5, after uninstal

Command line prompt broken on XP with Python 2.5 - help!

2007-02-16 Thread Endless Story
My last version of Python was 2.4, running smoothly on XP with path c: \Python24 - no need even to include this path in PATH; everything worked as it's supposed to at the command line. Just installed Python 2.5, after uninstalling 2.4 (and also 2.3 which had lingered). Now if I open a shell in Win