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[Ping Python maintainer]: enhancement request
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:58:57 +0100
- Subject: [Ping Python maintainer]: enhancement request
Hi,
I just found out that in the standard Cygwin Python setup it is not
possible to run the Python interpreter from a Win32 command shell.
(You get an error about the NTVDM (NT Virtual DOS machine even when C:
\cygwin\bin is in the path).
The reason is that python.exe is a symbolic link to python2.5.exe. As
the Python interpreter itself is only about 43 Kb in size I suggest
copying the interpreter instead of symlinking (Zsh for instance does
the same).
Thorsten
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