v2.3, 2.4, and 2.5's GUI is slow for me

[Duncan Booth]

g4rlik <lorenlightng at gmail.com> wrote:

> No one can help?  This is seriously bugging me to no end.

>> My problem is..the GUI for versions 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 of Python run
>> very sluggishly.  When I type in them or move them around my desktop,
>> it's very slow.  I have figured out that this is because of the
>> subprocesses running.  

Always slow or just sometimes? Idle can get very slow if you have generated 
a lot of output in the shell window, but usually it performs just fine. If 
you've accidentally printed "range(100000)" then your best best is to kill 
it and restart.

Use idle for development and testing: its best if you run actual scripts 
outside the development environment.