Jaime Gago wrote: > I wrote a simple piece of code as an exercise to an online -free- class > that finds prime numbers. When I run it via IDLE it's taking way more time > than if I run it via a (bash) shell (on Os X 10.6) while doing $>python -d > mypp.py > > I'm really curious from a performance perspective as to what could cause > such a noticeable difference.
Displaying text in Idle's Python Shell window has significant overhead If you remove the line > print prime_counter, 'found so far' from your script it should take roughly the same time to run via bash and in Idle. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
