Re: Getting Python on Windows points USER_HOME

2020-01-21 Thread Doug Henderson
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\\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

Re: Getting Python on Windows points USER_HOME

2020-01-20 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 21.01.2020 um 06:47 schrieb R Steiger: Hi Marco, Thanks for the response. As you seemed to hint, seems my Python installation was bent: I checked your dir listing against my Cygwin root directory (C:\cygwin64), and found that neither usr/bin nor usr/lib exist (usr/include/python3.8/pyconfig.

RE: Getting Python on Windows points USER_HOME

2020-01-20 Thread R Steiger
g or end, so would be hard to catch? (I'm not seeing any.) I've taken at least 4 runs at this wall, with zero successes. Thanks, -rjs -Original Message- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com On Behalf Of Marco Atzeri Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020 7:33 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subj

Re: Getting Python on Windows points USER_HOME

2020-01-20 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 21.01.2020 um 01:08 schrieb R Steiger: Having installed the latest Cygwin-built Python distro (3.8.1), it thinks user-site is C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming ... How ? the Python 3.8 available from Cygwin is under 2019-09-15 19:58 2674707 usr/bin/libpython3.8.dll 2019-09-15 19:58

Getting Python on Windows points USER_HOME

2020-01-20 Thread R Steiger
Having installed the latest Cygwin-built Python distro (3.8.1), it thinks user-site is C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming ... For all the usual reasons (and I'm confident like many of y'all) I strongly prefer having user-site = ~, i.e. *nix-style. I've munged Lib/site.py and sysconfig.py to set base