Newbie - ? get IDLE going on cygwin

Tue Sep 12 16:57:14 EDT 2006

* David J. Braden (2006-09-12 18:35 +0100)
> I can run Python in command-line mode fine from the cygwin shell; the 
> cygwin distribution also includes IDLE, which is apparently completely 
> installed, yet I am unable to get IDLE running. When I double-click 
> idle.bat (or idle.pyw) I am prompted to locate the program's creator. 
> Darn if I know what it is. If I try to invoke IDLE from cygwen bash, I 
> get "unable to remap c:\cygwin\bin\tk84.dll to same address as parent".

rebaseall

> Also - could someone plz recommend some useful environment variables for 
> Python on Windows? If I were to specify PYTHONDOC, should I use Unix or 
> Windows notation (e.g., "/" or "\").

You can set them under Windows in Windows notation or in your shell
startup file in Unix notation.

Thorsten