On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Benjamin Fishbein <bfishbei...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello, > I wrote a program that I want to have running 24/7. But the problem is > that I also want to write and run other programs. I'm using Idle and it > won't let me run more than one script at a time. Do you know if there's a > way to do this? Or do I need to buy a second computer? > Thanks, > Ben > > IDLE is just an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), meant to improve the convenience and efficiency of writing Python. It is NOT intended to be the primary way you run your Python scripts once you've written them, and it specifically cannot handle multiple scripts executing simultaneously. So the general answer to your question is: only use IDLE for writing and testing your script, not for running it once it's production-ready. Under Windows (which, for my sins, is my primary environment), you can: - open multiple command prompts (Start/Run/CMD) and type "python MyScript.py" in each of them - double-click on the icon for each .py or file, which will launch a copy of Python and execute the script - create a Task or a Service which will run "python MyScript.py" either at boot-up or at a scheduled time - or any of a few other methods. You have similar options in Mac and Linux environments, but I'll leave it to others to enumerate them.
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