which windows python to use?

[Robert Kern]

Robert Kern wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
> 
>>Robert Kern wrote:
>>
>>>James Stroud wrote:
>>>
>>>>Enthought does not play well with cygwin, I've noticed.
>>>
>>>In what way? Does the mingw gcc that we distribute interfere with Cygwin's gcc?
>>
>>One can not run the enthought python interactive interpreter from a 
>>cygwin x-window session, it locks up.
> 
> Interesting. I've seen the same thing with MSYS's rxvt ("native", not X). I
> presumed it was a strange interaction between bash and (any) Python. Looks like
> it may just be our Python, then. I'll enter a ticket on our Trac. Thank you!

My officemate notes that we ship readline. It is possible that readline is
expecting CMD.EXE not a decent terminal.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco