Larry Hudson <org...@yahoo.com> writes: >> Hi, I am having a hard time making my Cygwin run Python 3.5 (or >> Python 2.7 for that matter). >> The command will hang and nothing happens. > > Just curious... > > Since Python runs natively in Windows, why are you trying to run it > with Cygwin? I'm not implying that you shouldn't, just offhand I don't > see a reason for it.
I do it because it's easier to install third party packages, those that need an external library to run. Cygwin come with a lot of lib* and lib*-devel that permit to just run `pip install xxx' if not already packaged. I gave a try on the native Windows version and Anaconda but there is at least one package that I could not run (and I loosed a lot of time to compile a bunch of libraries). Example of package: pyproj (proj4), openpyxl with lxml (libxml2, libxslt) and pillow (libjpeg, zlib, libtiff, ...), psycopg2 (libpq). -- Benoit Izac -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list