On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: >> C:\>Python34\python 123123123.py >> cygwin warning: >> MS-DOS style path detected: C:\DOCUME~1\M\LOCALS~1\Temp\tmp94rcwd57 >> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /DOCUME~1/M/LOCALS~1/Temp/tmp94rcwd57 > > That's arguably a Python bug. Under Cygwin, it should use POSIX paths rather > than Windows paths.
Except that I wasn't; I ran Python 3.4 that was installed via the .msi package, and from that Python ran nano that was presumably compiled for Cygwin. >> Windows doesn't have a nice $EDITOR environment variable to call on, > > Why not? It's your environment, you can create any environment variable you > like, even under Windows, right? Sure, but what I mean is, there's a general convention on Unix that setting EDITOR will do that. You don't get to take advantage of expectations that easily on Windows. > But fundamentally, the de facto "standard editor" on Windows is Notepad. Sadly so. Which is why I tried it... >> You'll also have to cope with some other possibilities. What happens >> if someone tries Notepad? (Don't try this at home. We are experts and >> are testing on a closed track. Do not use Notepad unless you, too, >> have thirty years of special effects experience.) Turns out it doesn't >> like working with a file that another process has open. > > Ah, I feared that would be the case. I'll have to think about a way around > that. It won't be as neat, or as secure, but it should be doable. ... and yeah. That's the problem. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
