command prompt: the ntvdm cpu has encountered an illegal instruction

[Gerhard Häring]

Daniel wrote:
> If I try to invoke python via the command prompt I get an error
> "command prompt: the ntvdm cpu has encountered an illegal
> instruction..."
> 
> I don't get this problem if I first cd to the python directory.  I am
> running python 3.0 on windows.

Running Python from the Cygwin shell? Try from outside Cygwin, then.

-- Gerhard