why is com-prompt faster and how do i start at cprompt at mydir/ ?

[bukzor]

On May 23, 10:18 pm, notnorweg... at yahoo.se wrote:
> On 24 Maj, 07:01, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au>
> wrote:
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> > notnorweg... at yahoo.se writes:
> > > On 24 Maj, 05:48, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Can you tell us exactly which programs you mean when you say "the
> > > > shell" and "the commandprompt"?
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> > > commandprompt = windows dos-windows
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> > > shell = standard python interactive prompt
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> > Thanks.
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> > Be aware that referring to "the shell" without further qualification
> > is usually understood to mean "the operating system shell", i.e. the
> > command shell provided for running operating system commands.
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> > So, you're asking about the difference in behaviour between "the
> > Windows command shell" versus "the Python interactive shell".
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> > Ben Finney
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> yes

There's also the IDLE interactive shell, which is definitely slower,
and I suspect this is what he's talking about. If you run 'python.exe'
from the windows C: prompt is it still slow?