question

[Jason Tishler]

Georges,

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:19:52PM +0000, Georges Mertens wrote:
> Thank you for providing Python under Cygwin.

Your very welcome.  However, in the future please post to the Cygwin or
Python mailing list, as appropriate, instead of sending private email
so others can benefit too.

> However, I experienced sone problems :
> 
> 	- How to activate the readline.dll you provide to use it on the Python 
> commandline '>>>'?

If you do not already have a .pythonrc.py file, then save the attached
file in your home directory.  Otherwise, append it to your .pythonrc.py
file.  Then restart Python, readline will now be enabled.

> 	- You provide Tkinter as well, but my script is looking for '_tkinter'. 

My Cygwin Python distribution does *not* currently support Tkinter.

> Where can it find it?

Try searching the Cygwin mailing list archives:

    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/

You will find that others have built Cygwin Python that supports Tkinter.

Jason

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