So, I'm playing around with Python (running 2.6 and 3.1 versions of IDLE). After I shut everything down and close the windows, I notice the Task Manager's activity light is still glowing.
In looking at the Process window I see this: Image... User Name CPU Memory(... Description pythonw.exe mensanator 00 224 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 216 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 220 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 220 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 408 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 180 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 50 66,156 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 600 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 228 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 208 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 224 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 224 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 192 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 224 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 180 K pythonw.exe pythonw.exe mensanator 00 8,672 K pythonw.exe I can't seem to reproduce this. Opening IDLE causes two copies to appear. When RUN, a third appears for a few moments and drops back to two. Doing a RESTART SHELL also launches another copy which also goes away momentarily. So, with a 2.6 and a 3.1 IDLE running simultaneously, there could be 6 copies at once. And they eventually all go away when the windows are closed. How is it I end up with 16 copies, one of them still running after all the windows are closed? I had to manually do an [end process] on all of them. If I was doing something wrong, i sure would like to know what it is. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
