question about Pythonwin and memory

[Prateep Siamwalla]

Thanks Neil, I will keep these in mind next time Pythonwin/Idle slows down.

-teep


Neil Hodgson <neilh at scintilla.org> wrote in message
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> Prateep Siamwalla:
> > The interactive shell in windows (Pythonwin or IDLE) is great for trying
> > things/ideas out.  I usually write code/scripts in one window and then
> > switch over to the interactive shell to poke around with the object I
have
> > created.  On some occasions, either by intention or by accident, I have
> > gotten the shell to print out lots and lots of text ( something like
"for
> i
> > in big_list: print i"....woops!!) Anyways, after such a command is run,
I
> > notice the environment slows down drastically.  Is there a way of
clearing
> > some memory/buffer/whatever to get it back up to speed again?  (other
than
> > stopping and restarting Pythonwin of course)
>
>    There are several things which can be causing the slowness. I will talk
> about PythonWin although some of this may be useful for IDLE.
>
>    * Using up a lot of memory to hold the text in the interactive window.
> Difficult to fix as deleting the current text will save it in the undo
> buffer. Restarting PythonWin is the easy solution. It would be fairly easy
> to add a command that would delete all the text and the undo buffer.
>
>    * There are very wide (thousands of characters) lines in the
interactive
> window. This can be fixed by deleting the text of the interactive window
> with the key sequence:
> Ctrl+A Delete
>
>    * There is a bunch of memory in use because of some variables you have
> defined interactively. If you know the variable, then use the del
statement
> to remove it.
>
>    * PythonWin is having a problem with colourising the text. Delete the
> contents of the interactive window.
>
>    Neil
>
>