very odd behavior of Cygwin python from CMD

[David Abrahams]

With c:\cygwin\bin in my PATH, if I open a CMD shell and invoke

  python

I get some garbage characters on my console, and then it freezes.   If
I instead do

  set USER=dave && python

there are no garbage characters and no freeze, but also no python
process.

Can anyone explain this?

Thanks,

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com


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