[Tutor] Python Idle Crashing

[Prasad, Ramit]

Dave Angel wrote:
> On 05/16/2013 02:17 PM, kyle seebohm wrote:
> > I recently created a program that searches through a computer's drive to make a list of all the
> files in that drive. However, the drive I am attempting to parse through is extremely large and when I
> run my program, it runs for about 5 or 10 minutes then proceeds to not respond and not finish parsing
> through the entire drive. Is there a way around this or does the drive just contain too many files?
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Not clear why you would think that Idle had anything to do with it.  It
> didn't crash, it hung, or maybe is just taking a very long time, or
> maybe it has an infinite loop in the code, or you're thrashing after
> filling up memory?
> 
> Still, if you think it was IDLE, it's simple to just run the program
> without IDLE.
> 
> What's your environment, besides "extremely large drive"?  What OS, what
> version of Python?  And what's your code look like?
> 
> What does top say?  Is the disk light still blinking?  Do you have any
> symbolic links and does your code handle them correctly?
> 

Also, what version of Python? What OS? What file system? Do you have any 
logging (actual logs or even just print statements to console)?


~Ramit


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