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From: Doug Henderson <djhender AT telusplanet DOT net>
Subject: Re: cygwin telnetd/xinetd and non-cygwin Python: no interaction
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:02:59 -0600
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W. Borgert wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> thanks to Corinna, Igor, and Jason.  It seems I have to find another
> telnet implementation for Windows NT (XP seems to have telnet built
> in).  Unfortunately, I like to use Python interactively, so script
> mode is not enough.  OTOH, I cannot use cygwin Python variant,
> because it doesn't load the Python modules I have installed
> (omniORBpy, a CORBA implementation for Python).  Also, I fear that
> cygwin Python might be a little bit slower than "native" Python in
> respect to I/O, but this might be not true anymore.
> 
> Cheers, WB
> 

Windows and cygwin python are completely interchangable for the work I 
do. Today one of my colleagues asked what this /cygdrive/t/... stuff was 
doing in the error messages. He was running the windows version of 
python with .pyc files built by the cygwin version.

I find that python modules are easier to install under cygwin than in 
native windows. To build binary modules for the windows version, you 
need to use Visual C++, which I have refused to install. I have to 
locate a binary install package prebuilt for my python version and 
environment. For the cygwin version, "python setup.py install" always 
seems to work (provided the gcc tool chain is installed).

As an example, to install the cx_Oracle module, I need a binary 
installer that matches both my python version and my Oracle client 
library version. On cygwin, I use the same source version of the module 
with Oracle 8i, 9i and 10g client libraries and any version of python.



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