Re: Good and bad news about Lilypond 2.9.20 on Windows

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Mats Bengtsson schreef:
> > import sys
> > print sys.platform
> >
> > says?
> mingw32

ok, I have substituted os.system for that platform.

> > > The second problem is new for this release. When I call the program 
> > > using the
> > > native Python package, it doesn't find the lilypond executable, for 
> > > some strange reason:
> >
> > > I've verified that the lilypond bin directory is at the top of the 
> > > path and it works to
> > > call lilypond from the command line, so the PATH must get lost 
> > > somewhere along
> > > the way.
> >
> > does it work if you substitute ly.system() calls with os.system() ?
> No. I have verified that os.environ['PATH'] is set correctly, just 
> before the
> call to os.system and that I can call lilypond from within python when I 
> run
> python (the one supplied with LilyPond) separately, so it's really weird.

strange, but there was a bug with : iso. ; in the PATH for mingw. Maybe 
that will help.

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