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Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 10:21:41 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: Python Lesson Learned
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Wayne,

On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 12:14:52AM +0600, Dockeen wrote:
> I noticed something interesting this evening.  I was playing
> with the Cygwin version of dislin.  I got everything going for
> C and Perl, but Python was complaining of an interpreter
> mismatch.

The above is an unfortunate fact with (at least) Cygwin Python --
shared extensions built for one version of Python will *not* work with
any other version.

> [snip]
> Somehow (probably through incompetence or
> fumble fingering by me), I had ended up with two installations
> of Python, one in /usr/local/bin, and the newer one in /usr/bin,
> and the older one was being found first.

Note that the version in /usr/local is not from a standard Cygwin
package.  Did you ever build Python yourself?

Jason

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