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Hi kbk,

well, my use case is debugging. I write a script and run it
with IDLE. It doesn't behave as expected, so I insert a
print statement. Next time I run it, IDLE hangs. Oops, it
was a long array; it should have been an int. Line too long.
Duh.

OK, I wait through it, correct the bug, run it again. What
happens? IDLE hangs again, trying to scroll a long line (of
the previous run).

Never mind, I can always kill the process... Dammit, I
can't! It eats 100% CPU; task manager doesn't respond.

IMHO his takes away one of python's strengths, which is
making quick hacks really quick.

Would you suggest redirecting this issue to tkinter? You
don't seem to consider this an issue at all.

I will give squeezer a try. Or maybe PyDev?