Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-17 Thread Peter Otten
kyle seebohm wrote: I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to make a list of all the files in that drive. However, the drive I am attempting to parse through is extremely large and when I run my program, it runs for about 5 or 10 minutes then proceeds to not

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-17 Thread bob gailer
On 5/16/2013 8:49 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: don't run programs on real data using IDLE. IDLE is for developing programs not running them. That is really scary. Why do you say that? The IDLE documentation does NOT say that! -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill NC

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-17 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 18/05/13 03:16, bob gailer wrote: On 5/16/2013 8:49 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: don't run programs on real data using IDLE. IDLE is for developing programs not running them. That is really scary. Why do you say that? The IDLE documentation does NOT say that! IDLE is an IDE, that is,

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-17 Thread Alan Gauld
On 17/05/13 18:16, bob gailer wrote: On 5/16/2013 8:49 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: don't run programs on real data using IDLE. IDLE is for developing programs not running them. That is really scary. Why do you say that? The IDLE documentation does NOT say that! No, but IDLE is *intended* for

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-17 Thread Prasad, Ramit
bob gailer wrote: On 5/16/2013 8:49 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: don't run programs on real data using IDLE. IDLE is for developing programs not running them. That is really scary. Why do you say that? The IDLE documentation does NOT say that! Relates to IDEs and not IDLE in specific. I would

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-17 Thread Prasad, Ramit
Forwarding to the list as I believe the reply was mistakenly sent only to me. Marc Tompkins wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Prasad, Ramit ramit.pra...@jpmorgan.com wrote: bob gailer wrote: On 5/16/2013 8:49 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: don't run programs on real data using IDLE. IDLE

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-17 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Prasad, Ramit ramit.pra...@jpmorgan.comwrote: Forwarding to the list as I believe the reply was mistakenly sent only to me. Grr. Sorry about that! ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-17 Thread Ken G.
On 05/17/2013 02:19 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: On 17/05/13 18:16, bob gailer wrote: On 5/16/2013 8:49 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: don't run programs on real data using IDLE. IDLE is for developing programs not running them. That is really scary. Why do you say that? The IDLE documentation does NOT say

[Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-16 Thread kyle seebohm
I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to make a list of all the files in that drive. However, the drive I am attempting to parse through is extremely large and when I run my program, it runs for about 5 or 10 minutes then proceeds to not respond and not finish

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-16 Thread frederico Batista
I don't think running this on Idle is the best. Did you try to run your program in the command line? ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-16 Thread Dave Angel
On 05/16/2013 02:17 PM, kyle seebohm wrote: I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to make a list of all the files in that drive. However, the drive I am attempting to parse through is extremely large and when I run my program, it runs for about 5 or 10 minutes

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-16 Thread Prasad, Ramit
Dave Angel wrote: On 05/16/2013 02:17 PM, kyle seebohm wrote: I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to make a list of all the files in that drive. However, the drive I am attempting to parse through is extremely large and when I run my program, it runs for

Re: [Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

2013-05-16 Thread Alan Gauld
On 16/05/13 19:17, kyle seebohm wrote: I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to make a list of all the files in that drive. However, the drive I am attempting to parse through is extremely large and when I run my program, it runs for about 5 or 10 minutes then