In article <aanlkti=n=fwbwymyiuuha0jwcwevfemz83wcxhhsy...@mail.gmail.com>, Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kap...@case.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Frederick Manley <fman...@gmail.com> wrote: > > so went to > > python.org to download Python 2.7, as I was "strongly encouraged" to do on > > the website. [...] > >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. > >From the title, this may be relevant, but I'm not sure because I'm > having trouble accessing the bug tracker right now. > http://bugs.python.org/issue9227
Yes, you are undoubtedly running into Issue9227. This is a known problem with IDLE and Tkinter on OS X 10.6 when using the python.org 2.7 installer "for OS X 10.5 and later". Until a replacement installer is made available, the simplest workaround is to just re-install 2.7 using the 32-bit OS X installer "for OS X 10.3 and later" (available here http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/). -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
