A little curious about something..

[Player]

Hell all once again :)

I just installed Python after giving Activestates distribution of python a
try for a few days, and I have come across something that strikes me as a
little weird, to my beginners eye anyways.

In Activestates distribution of python, Idle or Pythonwin whatever their
version of Idle is, loaded fast and smoothly, and if I click-held the idle
GUI and moved the GUI window to reposition it somewhere else of the screen,
it moved fluidly and fast.

However with the Idle version in python, the GUI and python it's self loads
allot slower, and if I do the same click-hold to reposition the idle GUI
window, it chugs and stutters across the screen as I move it, rather slowly
and no were near as smoothly and fluidly as the Activestates version of the
Idle GUI window.

Why is this? is it something to do with the widget sets used??

M.B

PS: It's deffinately not resources lacking on my pc either :0 My machine is
a mosnter :)

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[Jeff Shannon]

Player wrote:

However with the Idle version in python, the GUI and python it's self loads
allot slower, and if I do the same click-hold to reposition the idle GUI
window, it chugs and stutters across the screen as I move it, rather slowly
and no were near as smoothly and fluidly as the Activestates version of the
Idle GUI window.

I'm just guessing here, but the ActiveState IDE, PythonWin, uses native
Windows widgets from Python, while IDLE uses Tk widgets inside a TCL
interpreter which is controlled from Python. This means that IDLE has
an extra layer or two of indirection. (And, while I'm sure that TCL is
a great language within its intended problem domain, I don't believe
that execution speed has been any sort of priority in its development...)

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International