Re: [Visualpython-users] Python 2.6 with VPython 5.1 in Ubuntu 9.04

[TH C. <teo...@gm...>]

I guess it somehow make sense now.

Thanks a bunch, Bruce.

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...>wrote:

>  Here is what you'll see if you go to the IDLE help, which I guess may mean
> that you'll get the wrong behavior that you've seen.
>
> Running without a subprocess:
>
>     If IDLE is started with the -n command line switch it will run in a
>     single process and will not create the subprocess which runs the RPC
>     Python execution server.  This can be useful if Python cannot create
>     the subprocess or the RPC socket interface on your platform.  However,
>     in this mode user code is not isolated from IDLE itself.  Also, the
>     environment is not restarted when Run/Run Module (F5) is selected.  If
>     your code has been modified, you must reload() the affected modules and
>     re-import any specific items (e.g. from foo import baz) if the changes
>     are to take effect.  For these reasons, it is preferable to run IDLE
>     with the default subprocess if at all possible.
>
>
> Bruce Sherwood
>
> TH Chew wrote:
>
> Dear Bruce,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I just check, the default shortcut of IDLE Python
> 2.6 Ubuntu 9.04 (which I was using all the while) is
> "/usr/bin/idle-python2.6 -n". Does the "-n" switch has something to do with
> my problem? When running the same script using VIDLE, I didn't face any
> problem at all. By the way, if I run my idle-python2.6 without the "-n"
> switch, the problem solved.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Bruce Sherwood <Bru...@nc...>wrote:
>
>> How do you start IDLE? I just tried running /usr/bin/idle-python2.6 in a
>> typescript on Ubuntu 9.04 and did not see the problem you report.
>>
>> You say you're now running VIDLE. Does it work properly, or does it have
>> the same problem that your IDLE has?
>>
>> Bruce Sherwood
>>
>> TH Chew wrote:
>>
>>  Hi all,
>>
>> Been trying to get the latest version of VPython working in my laptop. I
>> successfully compiled the source and installed using Python 2.6. The problem
>> is after I ran my VPython script using IDLE, and close the VPython window,
>> my IDLE exited at the same time. I tried running using command line python;
>> the python exited when I closed the VPython also. The same thing happened if
>> I used IPython. While I now used VIDLE to run my VPython script, is this
>> considered some kind of bug or it is just me doing something wrong
>> somewhere?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> THChew
>>
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