[Idle-dev] Feature request!

[Guido van Rossum]

> to make IDLE a more effective tool/rapid prototyping thingy it would be 
> usefull if the python code you write ran in its own thread of execution 
> in some kind of "sandbox" enviroment, seperate from the IDLE IDE, so 
> that if I mess up (e.g. an infinite loop) the whole of IDE won't lock up.

Guess what.  The IDLEfork 0.9a1 that was just released (see
idlefork.sf.net) does that -- it runs your program in a separate
process (threads don't offer enough sandboxing).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)