Robert Yodlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Amaury, when I tried to run IDLE from the command line as you suggested I got:
C:\>C:\python26\Lib\idlelib\idle.py IDLE Subprocess: socket error: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions, retrying.... IDLE Subprocess: socket error: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions, retrying.... IDLE Subprocess: socket error: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions, retrying.... IDLE Subprocess: Connection to IDLE GUI failed, exiting. ...followed by 2 error windows: Socket Error:An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions and... IDLE's subprocess didn't make connection. Either IDLE can't start a subprocess or personal firewall software is blocking the connection ...BUT when I try to run IDLE from the "all programs" menu it runs just fine - which it did NOT when I created today's bug report. To try to reproduce the original behavior, I first put back the unfixed version of run.py and IDLE STILL RAN FINE from the program menu I was VERY confused at this point and I completely uninstalled Python2.6 and reinstalled it from the same .msi installer I used before. After I reinstalled 2.6, IDLE again ran fine from the programs menu WITHOUT making the fix in run.py but NOT from the command line - producing the same error messages as at the top of this entry. Right now I am so confused I don't know what to do. I cannot reproduce the original problem I reported in this bug report and IDLE runs fine from the menu but not from the command line. It know that IDLE would not run from the programs menu until I changed run.py but once I did that, removing the fix seems to make no difference. (I've been careful to remove the run.pyc file each time.) I believe that the behavior I saw today with 2.6 was the same as I saw on Sept 22 with 3.0 when I submitted #3943 - and with the same confusing property where the fix is needed to make IDLE run but removing it makes no difference. I hope this makes sense to you. It doesn't to me. ...Bob _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4042> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com