Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40369000.3B3EE444@dessent.net> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:53:52 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: python and cygwin References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Totte Karlsson wrote: > > Seems as if I got it working by downloading python "for cygwin"?. I already > had python for windows installed and I thought cygwin would used that one > automatically? Guess one has to set it up somewhere? The win32 python and the Cygwin python are completely seperate and different. They do not share anything or "use each other". One is compiled for a unix/posix environment, the other for a win32 one. The same is true for Perl, with Cygwin perl vs. Activestate perl. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/