Message 277653 - Python tracker
Re: Cygwin is an unsupported platform. Currently, from the contents of Python-3.6.0b1, one may be led to believe that Cygwin _is_ supported, e.g. - see the references to Cygwin in the README file: $ grep -i cygwin README On Unix, Linux, BSD, OSX, and Cygwin: find out more. On OSX and Cygwin, the executable is called python.exe;