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Mathias Vanwolleghem
Mathias Vanwolleghem

Reputation: 468

speed python script on command line vs launched in IDLE shell

I noticed several times that a simple python script (with some straightforward algebraic computation in a loop) runs considerably faster (up to a factor 6) when launched on a shell command line as compared to a run via IDLE's shell. There is nothing fancy going on in the script. I only print a loop variable to visually follow progress in the loop.

Surely just this print statement cannot be the reason for the speed loss in IDLE, or can it ?

Can someone explain me why this is ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3990

Answers (1)

danodonovan
danodonovan

Reputation: 20343

The Tkinter text widget is slow, and IDLE uses this to print text to screen.

See this question.

Upvotes: 1

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