Originally posted to idle-dev, but thought this might be a better place. Let me
know if it isn't.
Hi,
I was curious about the internals of IDLE, and noticed that IDLE uses executes
user code in a "subprocess" that's separate from the Python interpreter that is
running IDLE itself (which does t
On Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 at 9:14 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Globals you create by executing code in the REPL have their own
> namespace. But everything else is shared -- builtins, imported
> Python modules, imported C extension modules, etc. etc.
Thanks for the explanation. Could you elaborate on p
On Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 at 10:18 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Yep, what you're seeing there is the namespace and nothing else. But
> if you mess with an actual builtin object, it'll be changed for the
> other interpreter too.
>
> > > > import ctypes
> > > > ctypes.cast(id(42), ctypes.POINTER(cty
