On 5.1, what is the process named "idle"?

[Till Plewe]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:04:05PM -0400, Joe Altman wrote:
> Greetings, list subsribers...
> 
> I've installed 5.1 and a variety of apps on a machine, in preparation
> for a move to 5.1 in the near future, and in the course of playing
> around on it, I've noticed a process called idle:
> 

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> What is idle? 

IDLE - an Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python
(see www.python.org)

- Till