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python, comint-mode: Large output makes Emacs freeze

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From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16875: python, comint-mode: Large output makes Emacs freeze
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:27:01 +0200

On 25.06.2014 03:19, Fabián Ezequiel Gallina wrote:
>
> This looks related to:
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13675
>

To a certain extend.
There some more operations done by comint, which aren't needed when executing Python code from source but may slow down it.

Thus solution in python-mode.el is to surpass comint-mode completely and use "start-process" and "process-send-string"

See py-fast-process.

> Some ways to attenuate irresponsiveness:
>
> 1. Disable python shell font-locking:
>     (setq python-shell-enable-font-lock nil)
>
> 2. Use Python's pprint to print such expressions, this makes it behave
>     pretty much like iPython:
>
>          >>> import pprint
>          >>> pprint.pprint([[[False] * 200 for i in range(3)] for j in range(200)])
>

Indeed, "pprint" should solve it already. Maybe make that the default? IMO looks better anyway.

Andreas

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