[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- nosy: -miss-islington resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 25bd1073996f26ad4895d3eb2d09315361c3cc84 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.6': bpo-33000: Document that IDLE's shell has no line limit. (GH-10373) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/25bd1073996f26ad4895d3eb2d09315361c3cc84 --

[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 2b2a8c130ceb47842cfbd0c725b5b6599b26cf27 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-33000: Document that IDLE's shell has no line limit. (GH-10373) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2b2a8c130ceb47842cfbd0c725b5b6599b26cf27 --

[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

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[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: New changeset 76cd0c30d60961d1a10e2673834a455d2b51f695 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'master': bpo-33000: Document that IDLE's shell has no line limit. (#10373) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/76cd0c30d60961d1a10e2673834a455d2b51f695 --

[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

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[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

Big Stone added the comment: for the record, since summer 2018, idlex-1.18 is compatible again with Python-3.6+: the author simply forked the old IDLE library IDLEX was depending on. so IDLEX icon in recent Winpython is"truly" IDLEX again. --

[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Roger, John may have run IDLE rather than IDLEX. This issue is about documenting the fact that tk Texts do not throw away lines, and will accept text until there are memory problems. (Command Prompt, for instance, only keeps the last N lines, where N

[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

Roger Serwy added the comment: Big Stone: Yes, IDLEX does have a slow memory leak. Please check if this bug is happening with IDLE itself. Terry: Thanks for responding to this. I suggest this issue can be closed. -- nosy: +roger.serwy ___ Python

[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

Big Stone added the comment: done, sorry for the (now) missleading icon name. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Big Stone: thank you for the clarification that IDLEX, and its patching of idlelib, is not involved. WinPython is an independent augmented distribution. Your suggestion about its IDLEX icon should be sent to its authors. --

[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

Big Stone added the comment: WinPython-64bit-3.6.4.0Qt5b4 doesn't in fact includes IDLEX: IDLEX is not compatible with Python-3.6+ The "IDLEX" icon of WinPython switches back to "normal" IDLE, when IDLEX is not detected. As WinPython-3.5 is being deprecated, the icon

[issue33000] IDLE Doc: Text consumes unlimited RAM, consoles likely not

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I don't know whether memory difference between us is due to IDLEX or Windows version or something else, but I don't really care. The IDLE doc has a section "IDLE-console differences". It should gain a paragraph explain the difference