from https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/1695#issuecomment-40407490: without libuuid-devel, python3 crashes when importing uuid
once the libuuid-devel package in installed, importing uuid works: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18947163/uuid-python-import-fails-on-cygwin-64bits so I guess the Python3 is missing the libuuid-devel package, at least on 64bit cygwin/windows. I didn't check on 32bit Windows/cygwin. Thanks, Guy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple