[Idle-dev] Fix for long delays

[David Scherer]

Hi all,

I'm back from my trip.

[Douglas]

> Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'NoneType' object has no attribute
> 'maxint'" in <bound method Popen.__del__ of <subprocess.Popen object at
> 0x9007e0c>> ignored


Believe it or not, this appears to be a bug in the subprocess module that
was fixed in Python 2.5.1.  The relevant checkin is this
one<http://svn.python.org/view?rev=54918&view=rev>
.

[Douglas]

> I had to adjust the patch a bit as it got mangled through the mailer (and
> I've attached the version to this email) so please check that I got it all.


What you sent looks right to me, though the bug Tal pointed out is still
there (SIGTERM = 9 instead of SIGKILL = 9).

[Douglas]

> I agree that for the us the "no subprocess mode" causes confusion. I'd vote
> to make get rid of it, or at least to not make it the default.


[Tal]

> I certainly agree that using a subprocess should always be the default.
> However, no-subprocess mode is very useful in certain cases, such as
> debugging IDLE itself, so we'd need a good reason to get rid of it.
>

Agreed.  This isn't as high priority for us as the termination issue, but it
would be best to default to using a subprocess regardless of how IDLE is
started, and to support multiple instances of IDLE with subprocesses.
There's no problem with having a command line option or setting for
no-subprocess mode, it just shouldn't happen to the naive user.

[Tal]

> The reason no-subprocess mode is the default on Windows is to avoid
> trying to open more than subprocess, since opening a second one
> usually fails because of port clashes. About a year ago I worked up a
> patch: http://bugs.python.org/issue1529142, "Allowing multiple
> instances of IDLE with sub-processes". The problem with it is that I
> haven't been able to get it accepted, because of lack of interest and
> its relative complexity.


Why not just bind to port 0 ("any") and then do self.port =
self.rpcclt.listening_sock.getsockname()[1] to find what port the OS has
assigned?  I tried that and IWFM.

Dave
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