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Bope
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Thonny vs Terminal

Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:05 pm

I have a project with a Pi Zero that checks the status of a couple GPIO pins every 5 minutes. So most of the time the system is idle. Is there any benefit running the program from Thonny vs Terminal?
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Re: Thonny vs Terminal

Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:08 pm

Quite the opposite I would think... most people dont run their programs from the development environment.
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Re: Thonny vs Terminal

Mon Oct 28, 2019 6:57 pm

That is what I was wondering is if either environment had an advantage over the other for running the finished code.
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Re: Thonny vs Terminal

Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:22 pm

Bope wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 28, 2019 6:57 pm
 That is what I was wondering is if either environment had an advantage over the other for running the finished code.
No. Running the IDE will use extra resources (extra memory mostly) to no purpose.
Furthermore its harder to run the program, you have to start thonny first.
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