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Re: Editor for Python

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On 1/8/2014 7:19 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> On 1/8/2014 3:46 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> On 1/8/2014 3:56 PM, Emile van Sebille wrote:
>>> On 1/8/2014 12:47 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>>
>>>> For a Python editor, as opposed to a general code editor, the Idle
>>>> editor works pretty well and has some advantages with respect to
>>>> integration with the interpreter.
>>>
>>> While true, ISTM in the past there have been 'leakage' related issues
>>> with idle -- are those no longer a concern?

Almost not, see below.

>> I have looked through most of the Idle issues on the tracker but do not
>> remember anything about 'leakage' (of memory?)
>
> Of names I think.
>
> As I recall it had something to do with both idle and the application
> running in the same namespace?  So the leakage was from within idle
> affecting the running of the script under development?

By default, Idle runs user code in a separate process from the Idle 
process itself, and has for several years. There is a command line 
option to revert to the old way (user code in the same process). Some of 
us would like to remove that option (and simplify the remaining code a 
bit). This option is kept mainly because connecting to the separate 
process via sockets sometimes fails on some systems.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Re: Editor for Python ayushpokharna@gmail.com - 2014-01-08 03:27 -0800
  Re: Editor for Python Douglas Duhaime <douglas.duhaime@gmail.com> - 2014-01-08 09:23 -0500
  Re: Editor for Python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-01-08 15:47 -0500
  Re: Editor for Python Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-01-08 12:56 -0800
  Re: Editor for Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-08 21:02 +0000
  Re: Editor for Python Ricardo Aráoz <ricaraoz@gmail.com> - 2014-01-08 18:38 -0300
  Re: Editor for Python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-01-08 18:46 -0500
  Re: Editor for Python Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-01-08 16:19 -0800
  Re: Editor for Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-09 11:23 +1100
  Re: Editor for Python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-01-08 20:51 -0500
  Re: Editor for Python TP <wingusr@gmail.com> - 2014-01-09 07:29 -0800

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