On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 17:08, R Steiger <> wrote: > > Having installed the latest Cygwin-built Python distro (3.8.1), it thinks > user-site is C:\Users\<myName>\AppData\Roaming ...
The latest python3 available via cygwin setup on 2020-01-21 is $ python3.8 -V Python 3.8.0b4 $ ls -l /usr/bin/python*.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 Admin None 9.1K Mar 20 2019 /usr/bin/python2.7.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 Admin None 9.6K Jul 21 2019 /usr/bin/python3.5m.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 Admin None 9.6K Jul 21 2019 /usr/bin/python3.6m.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 Admin None 9.1K Jul 21 2019 /usr/bin/python3.7m.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 Admin None 9.1K Sep 15 13:58 /usr/bin/python3.8.exe* If you are running 3.8.1, as of today, you must have built it yourself, or you are running the windows version of python. You can check this by executing $ which python3.8 /usr/bin/python3.8 If your python is in a directory outside the /usr/bin tree, you are not running the cygwin version of python. When running cygwin, my path looks like this: $ echo $PATH /home/Doug/bin:/home/Doug/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/lapack:/bin If you have any windows folders in your path, they should (must) follow these folders. I set CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 in my system environment variables, and then append only those windows folders that I need to run specific windows apps. > I've munged Lib/site.py and sysconfig.py to set base = "~" when os.name == > "nt", but this doesn't do the trick. What am I missing? These are not necessary, and may have damaged your python 3.8.1 for windows install. I suggest you undo these changes, or better yet reinstall python 3.8.1 for windows. HTH, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- 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
