Can anyone hear me? (was Solution to IDLE and Tkinter problems)

[Neil Hodgson]

> There are a few problems, however.  os.system takes a _long_ time to
> get the interpreter running and blanks my screen while it does it.  It
> would be nice if there was some more efficient command to start the
> interpreter.

   This may just be the slow python.exe startup because of multimedia
problem. If Python is also slow to start up from the command line search
Deja at http://www.deja.com/=dnc/home_ps.shtml for the "Python
startup seems slow" thread on comp.lang.python.

   Neil