Irritating artifacts of the python variety

[Norton Allen]

On 8/22/2025 2:05 PM, Mercurio, Steven W-CTR (FAA) via Cygwin wrote:
> I do not use venv because the instance I have of Cygwin is only for one task so there is no compatibility issues.  I removed all other 3.x versions I could except 3.12.  I do not need or want to make this any more complicated than it needs to be and am not even sure I could use a venv in my use case.
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> Also for Python 3.12 is there any way to get the Cryptography module (some rust issue?) running so I can pip install the latest version of Ansible and related tools (or at least something newer than 2.8)??
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> I am looking to use Cygwin strictly to run the Ansible checking and vault functions that are needed for Visual Studio Code Ansible plugins.

Do you know that that configuration will work? VSCode is a Windows 
program, and may play better with a Windows Python install rather than 
Cygwin. That said, if someone has done this and it works, that would be 
good to know!


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> Subject: Re: Irritating artifacts of the python variety
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> Dave Trombly replied to me with:
>     You will likely break things if you link the system 'pip' like that, the
> tools installed on the system are not in the default path for a reason.
>     ...
>     Please strongly consider using virtual environments when doing any sort
> of Python development - this is near universal / standard now.
>     This way, you will be running the tools (including pip) located in your
> venv, and not the site-installed tools.
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> I'll take your recommendation very seriously, I appreciate the advice. In
> this case, I will humbly point out, I wasn't really doing python
> development (but I will in the future)
> -- I was just trying to install a relatively simple script. I'm spoiled by
> Perl: "Keep simple things simple and make difficult things possible." :-)
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