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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:43:06 -0500
To: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: python and cygwin
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At 01:30 PM 2/22/2004, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes you wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:45:33PM -0800, Totte Karlsson <tkarlsson AT qm DOT com> wrote:
>> When I open up a "cygwin-bash" on windows, I just thought that I could use
>> my already installed "win-32" python. I realize now that you can't and I
>> think that creates problems. As a programmer I don't like do have to
>> duplicate things. I only want one "repository".
>
>You can use your already innstalled python.  You just may need to do a
>little work to make sure paths are correctly translated.  I'm not sure
>exactly what you were doing to feed python a /cygdrive... path; you may
>just need to replace the #! line in your script to point to a wrapper
>that does a cygpath -w translation on its first argument.
>
>Does anyone know if there is any particular reason that PATH translation
>ends up with /cygdrive/x/... rather than x:/...?
>


Sure.  You get that when you ask 'cygpath' for a POSIX path.  Maybe this is
not what you meant but I can't help beyond this without some specifics to 
your question.


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