title: Python 2.7.5 on Cygwin64: requests installation fails
body: <p>Our project is a mostly J2EE based development with the automatic functional and integration tests written in Python. The test environment is Linux nonetheless developers use Windows 7 (64-bit). We would like to be able to execute the functional tests on the developer machines as well (before comitting). Unfortunately the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1042778/can-i-use-expect-on-windows-without-installing-cygwin">pexpect-windows-portability</a> issue would leave us no choice but: </p>
  
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  <li>To do some serious refactoring on our test libraries to be able to use both winpexpect (or wexpect) and pexpect depending on the os settings.</li>
  <li>Or to use cygwin. Guess what, with this second option we seem to have an issue :-) <strong>Using Python 2.7.5 on Cygwin64 installing the <a href="http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">requests</a> package results in error</strong>:
  
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  <li>pip says it can not find a file after downloading and extracting the library</li>
  <li>easy install doesn't throw an explicit error, but leaves everything in the temporary dir</li>
  <li>after copying the files under the <em>site-packages</em> directory a simple import requests in python causes the interpreter to exit</li>
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  <p>Has anybody encountered this problem? <strong>With Cygwin-32 requests install smoothly.</strong> (however we have some other issues - see my next post ;-))</p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance: Joe, the public</p>