Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: >>> 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). > > I belive these are all available at > http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/
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