Just to give more information about the problem.
All programs that lives in `/mingw64/bin` (or `/mingw32/bin`) are native
Windows programs not depending on the msys2 dll directly. On the opposite,
all programs in `/usr/bin/` Why this information?
Because the default terminal (mintty) is a not a "real" terminal when
Windows native program sees it. Instead, Windows native program see
`mintty` as if it was a file. Hence, when you typed `python` in the
terminal, python checked the terminal and determined it was not capable of
doing interactive input/output. At this stage, it decided to wait for some
input which will never come (not exact, but good enough for this
explanation. That's why you see nothing.
The `winpty` aims at fixing this. You call your native windows program via
it and those then see a real terminal and will happily show you the correct
output and you will be able to enter input from the terminal. The `winpty`
utility works most of the time but you could hit some glitches, However, in
most cases, it works great (for python, I tested and history retrieval does
not work).
$ pacman -S winpty
$ winpty /mingw64/bin/python
Python 2.7.9 (default, May 7 2015, 19:34:28)
[GCC 4.9.2] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
Another things you can do (which I do some times to times), is to use
another terminal than `mintty` that has "native windows" features. ConEmu
should be one of them. You can also use the standard Windows cmd terminal:
Create a shortcut with the following target: C:\msys64\usr\bin\bash.exe
--login -i and with the following Start in value: C:\msys64\usr\bin
Than start the shortcut. You will have a native Windows terminal and python
will be happy, even without winpty.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Matt
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:20 PM Fabrice Popineau <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Or use "python -i" .
>
> Fabrice
>
> 2015-07-10 21:53 GMT+02:00 Alexey Pavlov <[email protected]>:
>
>>
>> > 10 июля 2015 г., в 22:15, Greg Jung <[email protected]> написал(а):
>> >
>> > This is my first experience with a failing python interpreter. From
>> an MSYS console window,
>> > running /mingwXX/bin/python, I don't get
>> > a prompt nor any other evidence of life.
>> >
>> > I can run it and get out the options such as --help and --version:
>> >
>> > greg@Homerw7 MSYS ~
>> > $ /mingw32/bin/python
>> >
>> >
>> > greg@Homerw7 MSYS ~
>> > $ /mingw32/bin/python --version
>> > Python 2.7.9
>> >
>> > greg@Homerw7 MSYS ~
>> > $ /mingw64/bin/python --version
>> > Python 2.7.9
>> >
>> > There are no environment variables with "PY" - do I need some?
>> > Also, I found that ^C exits but that ^D kills the window when the
>> interpreter is hung
>> > like this.
>> >
>>
>> Install «winpty» package.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alexey.
>>
>> > Any thoughts on where my trouble is?
>> > tia, Greg
>> >
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