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

[Endless Story]

On Feb 16, 11:51 am, "Endless Story" <usable.thou... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 11:34 am, Steve Holden <s... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.

Okay - here is from the Cygwin manual available online at http://
cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html:

"The PATH environment variable is used by Cygwin applications as a
list of directories to search for executable files to run. This
environment variable is converted from Windows format (e.g. C:\WinNT
\system32;C:\WinNT) to UNIX format (e.g., /WinNT/system32:/WinNT) when
a Cygwin process first starts. Set it so that it contains at least the
x:\cygwin\bin directory where "x:\cygwin is the "root" of your cygwin
installation if you wish to use cygwin tools outside of bash."