how does the main module notice when I change a module

[Michael Peuser]

"John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I've heard rumblings that the latest version of Idle (the one shipped
> with 2.3) runs your tests in a separate process so this problem doesn't
> happen. However, I haven't installed 2.3 yet to check it out. It might
> be time to check out Idle if it does indeed create a new process for
> each test.
>
> John Roth
>

There is generally no need to install Python 2.3 for another IDLE. I could
use the IDLE 1.0 coming with with 2.3 under 2.3 - though I am not quite
content with it....

There is a IDLEfork Project http://idlefork.sourceforge.net/ where all the
new IDLEs come from...

My favourit is IDLE 0.81 which is shipped with VPYTHON, but you probably can
find it the archives.
Under Windows 2000 it (0.81) does not come up the first time when opening it
from Windows (Edit with....), Newer versions 0.9, 1.0 do, but they as well
open a command line window every time. This not only pollutes the desktop
but sometimes hangs up the communication. After a while you will find
youself with 10 or more interpreters in the background and you have to kill
them with the task manager.....

The mechanism they use is internal TCP/IP communication. This as I mentioned
can hang up. You than need not restart WIndows but just clean up all the
Pythons lurking in the background...


Kindly
Michael P