Command line prompt broken on XP with Python 2.5 - help!

[Endless Story]

On Feb 16, 11:34 am, Steve Holden <s... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Endless Story wrote:
> > On Feb 16, 10:29 am, Tim Golden <m... at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> >> I would ask if you had *any* other Python installation
> >> -- say a cygwin one -- which might just be getting in the way?
>
> > It's a cygwin problem, guddammit. I was wondering if this might be the
> > case - I should have mentioned in my initial post that I've got a
> > whole Cygwin setup, including Python.
>
> > I know the conflict is the problem because just now I opened up a
> > command shell in XP (not the Cywgin bash window), and instead of
> > typing "python" and getting nothing, I tried "which python" - which
> > when you think about it, shouldn't even work in a XP shell. But
> > somehow Cygwin is mingling some of its capabilities with the XP shell,
> > because "which python" actually gets an answer - "/usr/bin/python,"
> > which is Cygwin.
>
> > Now the question is how to fix this - I don't want to uninstall the
> > Cygwin version. Instead I need some way of unknotting Cygwin's
> > intrusion into what should be an XP-only shell, or else a way of
> > giving priority when in that shell (and not the bash shell, which I
> > also use) to the Python executable residing at C:\Python25.
>
> It sounds like you may have mistakenly added Cygwin binary directories
> to your Windows path. This isn't normally necessary, since the Cygwin
> shell makes all necessary path adjustments as it starts.
>
> regards
>   Steve
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