[Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

[Alan Gauld]

On 16/05/13 19:17, kyle seebohm wrote:
> I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to
> make a list of all the files in that drive. However, the drive I am
> attempting to parse through is extremely large and when I run my
> program, it runs for about 5 or 10 minutes then proceeds to not respond
> and not finish parsing through the entire drive.

First, don't run programs on real data using IDLE. IDLE is for 
developing programs not running them.

Second, 5-10 minutes is not that long, how do you know it had stopped? 
Do you have progress markers printed that stopped printing? If not I 
suggest you add them - just a dot after each file (or each 10, 100, etc 
files) will do. Have you checked Task Manager (assuming windows, top on 
*nix) to see if the process is still using CPU?


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