On 10/21/2015 11:24 AM, Terry Alexander via Python-list wrote:
I have tried installing both Python 2.7 and 3.5, and in both cases I cannot get IDLE to work. I received the following message both times:
What OS? Windows? which version? How did you start IDLE? Start menu icon? Command line?
IDLE’s subprocess didn’t make connection.Either IDLE can’t start a subprocess or personal firewall software is blocking the connection. I am running Norton, and disabled it, but still IDLE will not run. Any suggestions?
Don't shout with ALL CAPS in the subject line. It usually indicates spam. I already know that this problem is very frustrating.
Firewalls are seldom the problems anymore. I occasionally saw this on Win 7 when restarting, but never on startup, and never more than once or twice in a session.
What's left is misconfiguration of your network interface that prevents a loopback connection. There might be answers on Stackoverflow that would help, depending on your OS.
In the meanwhile, you can start IDLE with the -n option. Either use a command line or create an 'IDLE -n' icon. Again, details depend on exact OS.
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
