Hi,
I am a teaching assistant for an introductory course at Georgia Tech which uses Python, and I have a student who has been unable to start IDLE on her Windows XP Home Edition machine. Clicking on the shortcut (or the program executable) causes the hourglass to appear momentarily (and the process to momentarily appear in the process monitor), but nothing happens thereafter.
Attempting to start IDLE from the script results in exactly the same output described in this discussion, suggesting that a socket error occurs, presumably for the Python loopback connection:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1017978&group_id=5470
The potential solutions mentioned in the discussion have had no effect, however. Obviously, something is preventing Python from establishing a loopback socket connection, but after disabling firewall software, antiviral software, and Windows's built-in firewall, the problem remains.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what might cause this problem? It shows up with both Python 2.4 and 2.3. Version 2.2 works as it should.
Thanks,
Branden Smith .::. CS 1321 TA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
