idle BUG

[Nick Perkins]

I gave up using IDLE a while ago, especially to write Tkinter apps.
It is hopelessly unstable on my NT box.
I have tried a few python editors/IDEs...

PythonWin is a little better, and Boa Constructor is better, still, but they
all crash or hang sometimes.
SciTe has just begun to work, now that I have my evnironment paths set up, i
will have to give that one another chance..

I have a sneaking suspicion that editors writtin in, and running in, Python
itself, all suffer from problems related to running user programs in the
same process, even the same interpreter, as the editor itself.

I am currently evaluating Komodo for 21 days, and it seems to be the best
that I have tried, so far.  It is very stable--I have not crashed it at all
yet.  In fact, one time, my program crashed python.exe, but Komodo
gracefully recovered control like nothing had happened.  It also has a few
cool features that I haven't seen elsewhere.
My only complaint about Komodo is that it is very slow and unresponsive.
Sometimes it seems to freeze up for about five seconds, and response to
keyboard input in the edit window is noticeably slow.  These things, I
suspect, are due to the mozilla stuff underneath.  I have never been
impressed with a mozilla app, they have neat-looking interfaces, but they
are always a little flakey, and noticeably slow in reacting to the mouse and
keyboard.

In my desperation, I have even gone so far as to try to install vim, but I
couln't seem to find and install it in any easy way, so I gave up and got
the Komodo demo.

...still searching a rock-solid python ide...