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Re: [Ping Python maintainer]: enhancement request
- From: Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 08:06:23 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Ping Python maintainer]: enhancement request
- References: <f137va$5ar$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:58:57PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> I just found out that in the standard Cygwin Python setup it is not
> possible to run the Python interpreter from a Win32 command shell.
> (You get an error about the NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS machine even when C:
> \cygwin\bin is in the path).
The following works:
C:\>bash -c python
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Mar 13 2007, 08:13:14)
...
> The reason is that python.exe is a symbolic link to python2.5.exe. As
> the Python interpreter itself is only about 43 Kb in size I suggest
> copying the interpreter instead of symlinking (Zsh for instance does
> the same).
OK. Should I copy or make a hard link?
Jason
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