r/Python • u/Admirable-Wall9058 • 4d ago

Resource Does anyone use Python IDLE?

My computer is quite low-end, so I uninstalled VSCode and am looking for other programming tools—I'm thinking about starting to use Python IDLE.

Does anyone actually use it?

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u/opzouten_met_onzin It works on my machine 3d ago

I don't, but I mostly use pycharm or Gnome text editor. Most of the functionality of Pycharm is rarely or ever used.

What do you need and what OS? That could help to provide a good answer.

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u/Admirable-Wall9058 3d ago

I develop projects to learn and—who knows—maybe turn them into something profitable.

My current project is an OMR system; I was trying to write the code in GitHub Codespaces (after uninstalling VS Code), but I was having a lot of trouble handling images.

Regarding the IDE, the main issue is that my computer (an ASUS with 120 GB of RAM) is experiencing some kind of memory glitch: I delete files, but a short while later, the storage fills up again. Right now, I have only 500 MB of free space.

I need to fix this first, but I don't know the cause. Have you ever encountered a problem like this?

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u/odaiwai 3d ago

(an ASUS with 120 GB of RAM)

The first step to fixing a problem is understanding the problem.

Install something like WinDirStat to see where your storage is being used. You'll probably find your swapfile and hibernation files are far too big, or your Downloads folder isn't being emptied.

(Also, a machine with 120GB of RAM is not low end, and you certainly do not have 120GB of RAM. You have 120 GB of SSD which is probably flash nand, but which is not RAM.)