On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Twirlip2 <ahr...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I do really mean "continuously". I'm hopelessly addicted to listening to > repeats of classic comedy programmes on Radio 4 Extra; I often listen at > bedtime, and first thing in the morning; and I keep my computer running 24/7 > (shutting it down only when I'm away from home overnight). Since I require > Python in order to listen to my beloved radio programmes reliably (don't get > me started on the subject of the thrice-accursed BBC website!), I therefore > have IDLE running all the time, very probably sometimes for weeks on end. > > There have been a few times when IDLE has become unresponsive, or awkward, in > some way(s) - which I'm afraid I can't clearly remember, because it only > happens every few days, and never bothers me that much - and then I do shut > it down and restart it. > > My computer is also a 32-bit one, which I built in (believe it or not) 2003; > it has only 768MB of RAM (and used to have even less). Until this year I was > also (believe it or not) using Windows 98SE. (No problems with IDLE on that, > either, that I can remember.) >
Yeah, that's how I used to use Idle too. I'd fire it up basically as part of the bootup sequence (My Computer, Drive C, Desktop, Firefox, Chrome, RosMud, and Idle 3.x), and never shut it down. These days, I tend to fire it up when I want it and shut it down when I'm done. However, that could be because this particular XP installation is getting long in the tooth, and I've been seeing issues switching to Firefox after it's been running for a while. Some day I'll probably throw Debian onto this box, but at the moment, it's my only real Windows computer left, and since I've pledged to support Windows with certain of my projects, it's best I actively use Windows sometimes. On my Linux boxes (mostly some version of Debian, but with hardware like you describe, I'd be looking at AntiX), I don't generally use Idle at all - I just hit Ctrl-Alt-T and type "python" or "python3", and use command-line Python instead. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
