On Dec 16, 2006, at 6:37 PM, sheila miguez wrote:
> I have ActivePython and a cygwin install of python. When I installed
> the packages required by dabo they went into the ActivePython
> distribution, but when running python scripts the /usr/bin/env calls
> the cygwin install. which is annoying. I've been specifying the other
> python directory by hand.
Right-click on a .py file, and select 'Choose Program...'. Select
the ActivePython executable, and check the 'Always open...' box. That
should associate .py with the ActivePython version.
> What could I do to avoid this problem without uninstalling the cygwin
> package? (doing that would screw with some dependencies)?
>
> Speaking of cygwin, should I be on the lookout for any weirdness
> caused by the alternate way of specifying path names or is that
> handled gracefully by python? (e.g. c:\home vs /cygdrive/c/home)
Definitely! The dumb choice of backslash for Windows wreaks havoc
with pathing, since backslash is a meta character, and thus has to be
constantly escaped. When I first started working in Python on
Windows, I would save a path as 'c:\home', which would then come back
as 'c:\\home'. Next time I saved it Python would escape both of these
backslashes, changing it to 'c:\\\\home', etc.
If you find any such problems, please let us know.
-- Ed Leafe
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