[issue2584] numeric overflow in IDLE

[Tim Wilcoxson]

Tim Wilcoxson <qodosh at gmail.com> added the comment:

I guess my only reply is....fair enough.

heh.

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Kurt B. Kaiser <report at bugs.python.org>
wrote:

>
> Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk at shore.net> added the comment:
>
> When this is running, what happens if you hit Control-c a few times,
> especially in the first few seconds?  Does it abort with a
> KeyboardInterrupt? Does it stop responding to Control-c after the window
> fills up?
>
> Note that IDLE slows down when very large quantities of text are printed
> to the shell window.  This is an issue with the Tk library.
>
> The subprocess is supposed to exit when it notices that the socket has
> closed.  This doesn't work well on Windows, unfortunately.  We are
> thinking about it ;-)
>
> It doesn't seem that what you are attempting to fix has any realistic
> application.
>
> I don't run Vista.  Check your resources right after you start your
> code.  Is your system unresponsive because you are running out of memory
> or because you are using CPU 100%?
>
>
> Patient: My head hurts when I bang it against a wall.
> Doctor: So, don't do that!
>
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