IDLE has suddenly become FAWLTY - so should I be hitting it with a big stick, or what?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Twirlip2 <ahrodg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've been using IDLE with Python 3.4.0 on Windows XP (SP3), since March this year, and since May I've been running IDLE almost continuously, using it scores of times every day,
>

Just to clarify: When you say "continuously", do you mean that you
keep it running for long periods of time? Because I've had various
issues on XP with leaving Idle running forever - it begins to take
arbitrarily long to switch back to it after leaving it, umm, idle for
a while. This is on a 32-bit system with 2GB of RAM. These days, I
tend to shut Idle down when I'm done with it.

ChrisA