Cygwin shell in emacs / cmd.exe in windows

Question

I am trying to run python in a shell in emacs. I tried the standard Mx shell that comes with emacs windows and then type “python”, but python just hangs (no output). I also tried to run other shells like bash.exe from cygwin with the same result. Any way to get a shell that can run other programs like python?

Answer 1

Why not use M-x python-shell? This provides an interactive REPL for Python in Emacs.