I have snow leopard and a brand new mac book pro. After running python from x11, I saw that I had python 2.5.1 installed on this laptop, so went to python.org to download Python 2.7, as I was "strongly encouraged" to do on the website.
The problem is that Mac doesn't come with a text editor for writing programs. TextEdit won't allow you to save files with the ".py" extension. So IDLE is really my only choice. The only problem is, whenever I start it up (I've tried starting it from the Terminal and double clicking the icon) I get the following message: "Idle's subprocess cannot make connection. Either Idle can't start a subprocess or a personal firewall is blocking the connection." Searching various programming forums came up with similar problems users have had in windows, but I couldn't find any information on how to fix this problem on a mac with OSX. Please help. Thanks, Fred
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