On Feb 12, 8:57 am, "W. eWatson" <notval...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > > W. eWatson wrote: > > >> It appears if one moves between IDLE and pythonWin (pyWin) that two > >> separate loops (threads?) can occur, and that IDLE can produce incorrect > >> results. Since I have preferred IDLE over pyWin, that leaves me currently > >> in a quandry. How do I renew these processes, so that I can proceed with > >> IDLE? > > >> I noticed that I had about 10-15 copies of pythonw.exe as I tried to reach > >> some understanding of what was going on. Killing these tasks didn't help > >> restore order to IDLE. It seems my only choice now is to reboot? Comments? > > > Gosh no, rebooting shouldn't be needed. Just quit all idle & pywin > > processes, including of course the main programs. Which *should* be > > anything that is needed anyway. > > Done that. Been there. It doesn't work. If I take another py tkinter program > and run it in IDLE, it *will work*. The current program goes boom. > > > And you still seem to not understand what is really happening. > > Whether I understand it exactly or not is not the issue. The issue is how do > I execute IDLE *now* to get the correct results it once allowed? The fact of > the matter is that I was happily working in IDLE for days and hours. I > encountered a problem in IDLE that seemed suspicious, so I then fired up > pyWin to see if it gave the same results. It worked fine. Then my problems > with IDLE got worse. > > > Working between pywin and idle is perfectly fine, they are separate > > programs. You can start as many instances of a program as you want and > > happily work with them. Even several instances of idle and pywin, unless > > these come with some logic to prevent multiple starts - some windows app > > do that. > > How could this be true; otherwise, I wouldn't be complaining? > > > What does *NOT* work is writing a Tkinter-based app in idle, and to run it > > *FROM INSIDE* idle. Instead, open your explorer and double-click on the > > pyhton-file your app is in. That's all that there is to it. > > Personally, I like running entirely in IDLE. > > If there is no other way than you suggested in "NOT work", then I may just > uninstall pyWin. > > > > > Diez > > -- > W. eWatson > > (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) > Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet > > Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>
I like IDLE too. However, I've experienced seemingly random crashes when programming wxPython programs in it. As already stated, the mainloops clash from time to time. So now I use Wingware or just edit the files in IDLE and run the program by double-click or via command line. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
