Can anyone hear me? (was Solution to IDLE and Tkinter proble

[Neil Hodgson]

> However, I don't think it is the interpreter itself, because it can
> start much quicker when not run through os.system.  I read a recent
> thread about os.system which said it was slow because it loaded a
> shell to run in.

   If starting up a shell is slow check your path. Too long a path or a path
that includes networked volumes or floppy/zip drives can slow things down a
lot.

   Neil