Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 21:26:16 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: Georges Mertens Cc: Cygwin Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <20010507212616.B1659@dothill.com> Mail-Followup-To: Georges Mertens , Cygwin References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="9koK8aStSqgVRjJM" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from georges_mertens@hotmail.com on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:19:52PM +0000 Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp. --9koK8aStSqgVRjJM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corp. Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com --9koK8aStSqgVRjJM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".pythonrc.py" try: import readline except ImportError: print "Module readline not available." else: import rlcompleter readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete") import os histfile = os.path.join(os.environ["HOME"], ".python_history") try: readline.read_history_file(histfile) except IOError: pass import atexit atexit.register(readline.write_history_file, histfile) del os, histfile --9koK8aStSqgVRjJM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple --9koK8aStSqgVRjJM--