v2.3, 2.4, and 2.5's GUI is slow for me

[Duncan Booth]

Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com wrote:

>> I don't use IDLE too much anymore, just for quick tests, but 
> 
> Just curious.  I have tried IDLE, but stopped using it after going
> through a few of the tutorials.  I just type things in at the 'python'
> prompt, regardless of which platform I am working on; Linux, AIX or
> Windows.  But, then again, my code winds up in a batch process or part
> of a web app.  
> 
> Is there something cool I am missing?
> 
The main plus of idle for me is that in interactive mode I can easily pull 
back any single statement (e.g. a complete class definition) edit and then 
re-execute it. The command line only pulls back single lines for editing, 
not complete statements.

Also the ways to pull back a previous command are simpler. As well as 
typing the start of a command then using alt-p to pull it back you can look 
through the buffer, put the cursor on a command and hit return to get an 
editable copy.