[Edu-sig] comments on Idle and Python

[Peter Chase]

Florian Reichl wrote:

> John M. Zelle schrieb:
>
>> I can't disagree with any of Toby's comments, but overall we like IDLE
>> very much here.
>>
>> On a slightly more aggravating front, we and others have noticed that 
>> IDLE
>> 1.04 is not as stable under Windows as previous versions. It seems that
>> there are situations that can cause the shell to lose communication with
>> its underlying subprocess. This happens sporadically, so it is a bit 
>> hard
>> to reproduce.
>
>
> Same at our school:
>
> Sometimes the students just say "Run Module" but they just do not return
> to the Python Shell windows.
>
> Also their code in the editor window is not executed. So if they return
> to the Python Shell window manually their code changes in the editor
> have no effect to the shell.
>
> So the students loose confidence in idle and begin to ask for another
> development environment.
>
>
> Did anyone have the same experiences and got it solved?
>
> Best regards,
> Florian
>
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Chances are that if you open the Task Manager you will see a number of 
active python.exe processes that are still running.  You can kill them 
and then the program may run successfully.