Alan gave me this piece of advice in his response to another message I sent to the list. Since the topic is a bit different from the one in the original message, I think it is better to start a different thread.
> Don;t run your code inside the IDE except for testing. IDEs are > Development Environments, they are not ideal for executing production > code. Run your file from the Terminal command prompt directly. I thought the code was not run inside the IDE but it was run by Python independently, that is, the IDE just provides an interface. When I run code from within Eclipse (the IDE I'm starting to use) I can see a Python process in my process monitor. The process for Eclipse is consuming very little CPU. So, what is the advantage of running the file from Terminal? I can see only disadvantages: a) it is slower since I have to type $python filename.py (ok, this takes very little time but clicking a button or typing a key shortcut to execute the code takes less time) b) with the terminal I don't get the debugging benefits that an IDE provides (I must say though that I still haven't really taken advantage of the benefits that Eclipse provides since the code I'm writing so far is pretty simple). JM _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
