Python, Windows, and Cygwin

[Paul Lussier]

Arc Riley <arcriley at gmail.com> writes:

> Python downloads for windows are right on the website.  Unless you have a
> pressing need to use the 3rd party cygwin version you should just download
> it from python.org

I'm not comfortable going with 3.x yet.  We have vast amounts of
legacy python from 2.x which needs to work across platforms.  Until I
can upgrade all the Unix systems to 3.x and ensure everything will
build under 3.x, I need to stick with 2.5.

Can you explain to me what is different about the Cygwin version ?
Why is it not the same as the Windows version ?

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Thanks,
Paul