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Subject: RE: Problem running Scripts in cygwin
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:05:47 +0100
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Calvin Cheng wrote on 19 June 2008 16:13:

> I am having some trouble getting python to run scripts located in
> "/cygdrive/c/Python25/Scripts" in cygwin. I get an error message
> saying:
> python: can't open file 'rst2html.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> 
> I can run those same scripts in "c:/Python/Scripts" correctly, with no
> error, if i am in cmd prompt environment.

  You are using windows python, not cygwin python, so there's no way on
earth it will ever understand posix file paths.

> It really bothers me to have to switch to cmd prompt and cygwin
> alternately to get some scripts running and I would love to get this
> working in cygwin if someone could point me in the right direction or
> have solved a similar problem? Has anyone managed to get this working
> in both cmd and cygwin?

  Use cygwin python, not activestate.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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