Laura Creighton wrote:
> In a message of Fri, 23 Oct 2015 00:19:42 -0400, Terry Reedy writes:
>>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
>
> You can also get this message if you run idle in directory where you
> have your own python file whose name shadows something in the
> standard library (that idle is interested in). I think it was
> a file named 'string.py' that did this to a student of mine a
> few years ago.
>
> Laura
I tried it out:
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ touch string.py
$ idle3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/run.py", line 12, in <module>
from idlelib import CallTips
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/CallTips.py", line 16, in <module>
from idlelib.HyperParser import HyperParser
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/HyperParser.py", line 14, in <module>
_ASCII_ID_CHARS = frozenset(string.ascii_letters + string.digits + "_")
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ascii_letters'
Then idle shows the message and quits after you hit OK.
Is there a bug report?
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