os.popen() failing under ipython+cygwin, I'm stumped.

[Norman Vine]

Thorsten Kampe  writes:
>> > 
> > Does rebasing your Cygwin installation help?
> > 
> >     http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/rebase/rebase-2.2.README
> 
> This helped with the IPython problem, thanks. Unfortunately idle under
> Cygwin has the same problem. I rebased the five TclTk dlls but that
> didn't changed the error ("os error: resource temporarily
> unavailable").
> 
> For obvious reason I didn't want to rebase the whole Cygwin
> installation because that would break a lot of things...

I rebase the whole Cygwin system whenever I run into issues
building a Python extension

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg01216.html

HTH

Norman