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diff --git a/Doc/library/idle.rst b/Doc/library/idle.rst index fc45e31..2b9bd4b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/idle.rst +++ b/Doc/library/idle.rst @@ -726,6 +726,15 @@ with objects that get input from and send output to the Shell window. The original values stored in ``sys.__stdin__``, ``sys.__stdout__``, and ``sys.__stderr__`` are not touched, but may be ``None``. +Sending print output from one process to a text widget in another is +slower than printing to a system terminal in the same process. +This has the most effect when printing multiple arguments, as the string +for each argument, each separator, the newline are sent separately. +For development, this is usually not a problem, but if one wants to +print faster in IDLE, format and join together everything one wants +displayed together and then print a single string. Both format strings +and :meth:`str.join` can help combine fields and lines. + IDLE's standard stream replacements are not inherited by subprocesses created in the execution process, whether directly by user code or by modules such as multiprocessing. If such subprocess use ``input`` from |