Cygwin - Overriding packaged installs

Question

Running python from my terminal currently uses the packaged Cygwin install;

$ which python
/usr/bin/python

But I want it to point at;

C:\Python27

in other words;

/cygdrive/c/Python27/python

I could add an alias in my ~/.profile but this feels hacky to me, the latter python is on my path but the Cygwin bundled version overrides it.

I am actually using xrvt if it makes any difference.

Many thanks in advance!

Answer 1

PATH=/cygdrive/c/Python27:$PATH

or use an alias. There's nothing hacky about that - it's what they're for.

One might be tempted to use update-alternatives or manually create a symlink, but doing so will break things that depend on a particular version of Python.