[Tutor] Python spawning extra processes

[Glen Wheeler]

  Hi Britt,

  I believe this is something to do with Tkinter.  Try running the program
from the command prompt.  I myself never use my IDE (win32all for me) to run
programs, always scripts (/batch) and always the command prompt.
  When I did alot of Tkinter programming (a few years ago now...may have
memory issues ;) I recall that terminating the program by CTRL+ALT+DEL still
left a ghost process.  This is why I suggest execution from the shell.

  HTH,
  Glen

PS.  I'm using a different account to post this because my other e-mail is
dying...hope this does not offend the list admins.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Britt Green" <seamonkeys at gmail.com>
To: <tutor at python.org>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 1:00 PM
Subject: [Tutor] Python spawning extra processes


> Hey all!
>
> I've encountered something odd that I'm hoping someone can clarify for
> me. I've coded a very simple chat server in Python, using the Twisted
> libraries. From Windows XP, I launch it from Idle and do my thing. I
> then quit it by pressing CTRL-C in the Python shell.
>
> If I then go into my Task Manager, I see that the pythonw.exe process
> started by the program is still there. Executing the script creates
> another process that doesn't go away when I terminate the program. I
> noticed this today when I saw I had 30+ pythonw.exe processes going!
>
> I'm wondering what's causing this and how to get it to stop.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Britt
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