Re: Cygwin and Python3

2016-02-09 Thread alvin . hacopian
On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 8:41:43 AM UTC-8, Fillmore wrote: > Hi, I am having a hard time making my Cygwin run Python 3.5 (or Python 2.7 > for that matter). > The command will hang and nothing happens. > > A cursory search on the net reveals many possibilities, which might mean a lot > of t

Re: Cygwin and Python3

2016-02-09 Thread alvin . hacopian
On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 12:20:06 PM UTC-8, Fillmore wrote: > On 2/9/2016 2:29 PM, alvin.hacop...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/python > > rm /usr/bin/python > > > > $ ln -s /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python3.2m.exe > > > > $ /usr/bin/python --version > > Python 3.2.5 > > > >

Re: Cygwin and Python3

2016-02-11 Thread alvin . hacopian
On Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 10:18:53 AM UTC-8, Benoit Izac wrote: > Terry Reedy writes: > > >>> Since Python runs natively in Windows, why are you trying to run it > >>> with Cygwin? I'm not implying that you shouldn't, just offhand I don't > >>> see a reason for it. > >> > >> I do it becau