Newbie Cygwin Q

Gerry Blais gerard.blais at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 13:17:28 EDT 2006


Sorry - problem solved.

My #!/usr/Pyrthon2.4.exe was inadvertently on line 2...

Gerry

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:04:10 -0400, Gerry Blais
<gerard.blais at gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm trying to install and run, on XP,  a queueing analysis package,
>PDQ, which has a{ Python, swig, C library version}.
>
>I'm new to Cygwin (but not to Unix).
>
>After installing Cygwin and Python, there is a Python2.4.exe in /lib.
>
>If I have a file with
>
>#!/lib/Python2.4.exe
>
>Print "hello"
>
>and I do the chmod, and submit  ./hello.py
>
>I get a message "hello.py is currently being printed" and nothing
>happens, until I give up and ^C out.
>
>or, now, with no changes I can see, 
>
>Can't find file hello
>
>What am I missing?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gerry



More information about the Python-list mailing list