On Thu, 28 May 2009 16:53:53 -0700
Christopher Lee <l...@chem.ucla.edu> wrote:

> I combined your Windows && support with what I did for changing  
> directory in the subprocess, plus some support for supporting the  
> Popen env argument.  See my filepopen_cwd branch on github.
Excellent.

> Cygwin is a nasty case, because it fools Python into thinking it can  
> use unix style paths, but when those are passed to blastall /
> formatdb (or any other Windows program) they will just fail.
> 
> Maybe we should tell people not to run Pygr within Cygwin for this  
> reason?
We could also manually rewrite path separators if Cygwin is detected
and the program to be called belongs to the BLAST suite... Do you think
it's worth the effort?

BTW. I take it the problem affects both os.system and the subprocess
module?

-- 
MS

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