Greeting Jackie: Python's IDLE talks to itself over 127.0.0.1 and sometimes antivirus software can police that circuit.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8588025/unable-to-load-idle-python-gui I do suggest an experiment where you shut off any antivirus / policing software you can think of, just temporarily. If that does prove to be the problem, must antivirus software has ways to allow exceptions. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3277946/no-idle-subprocess-connection Also try booting Python with the -n switch per advice in the above post. Kirby On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:58 PM, JACKIE MASLOFF <jackie.masl...@newbury.edu> wrote: > Yesterday I was running the Windows version of the Python 2.7.3 shell with > IDLE as my editor. I saved a file and ran it and got some error message > which unfortunately I don't remember. I then closed Python and when I tried > to re-open it, I got the following error message: > > IDLE's subprocess didn't make a connection. Either IDLE can't start a > subprocess or personal firewall software is blocking the connection. > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
