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

[tleeuwenburg at gmail.com]

It's not slow for me. It's not like Python's inherently slow.

Try turning off your virus scanner (temporarily and while not doing
anything dangerous, of course).

Cheers,
-T


g4rlik wrote:
> No one can help?  This is seriously bugging me to no end.
>
> g4rlik wrote:
> >
> > I've been asking all over the place, namely different forums.  I even
> > e-mailed help at python.org about my problem, but they couldn't assist me too
> > much.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > To cope with this problem, I created an idle.txt file, and added this to
> > the first line of it:
> >
> > c:\python25\python c:\python25\Lib\idlelib\idle.py -n
> >
> > After that I saved the extension to .bat and now when I run that file, the
> > Python GUI opens without any subprocesses running and I have no problem.
> > However, I'd still really like to know how I could fix this problem even
> > more.  I honestly don't understand why the GUI is so sluggish for me.  The
> > GUIs for Python version 2.2 and below run fine for me.  My system specs
> > are as follows:
> >
> > Windows XP Home Edition
> > AMD Athlon XP 2800
> > nVidia 6800GT
> > 1 gig of RAM
> >
> > If anyone else could help, that would be great.
> >
> >
> > ***EDIT***
> >
> > When starting up Python's v2.5 GUI, I noticed this message.
> >
> > "Personal firewall software may warn about the connection IDLE
> >     makes to its subprocess using this computer's internal loopback
> >     interface.  This connection is not visible on any external
> >     interface and no data is sent to or received from the Internet."
> >
> > Maybe a firewall is interfering somehow?  I'm behind a hardware firewall
> > with my Linksys router.
> >
>
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