On 23 Aug, 2013, at 3:54, Andrew Svetlov <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this is a firewall issue. I don't think it is. I have the local firewall enabled on my machine and can use IDLE just fine. Arie could have a 3th-party firewall that blocks connections on the loopback device, but AFAIK most users don't use such tools. > Probably the proper solution would use pipes instead of sockets. I agree that using pipes (or even socketpair() sockets) would be cleaner than the current solution, but would that work on Windows? The current solution has the advantage of working on Linux, Windows and OSX without having separate implementations for some of the platforms. Ronald > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Terry Reedy <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 8/21/2013 10:02 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: >>> >>> On 8/4/2013 5:07 PM, Arie Schlesinger wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> I try to work with python 3.3.2 on macbook-air 10.8, but IDLE won't >>>> open. >>>> It writes "IDLE's subprocess didnit make connection.." >> >> >> You might try to run >> python -m test test_socket test_subprocess >> and report the result. >> >> >> >> -- >> Terry Jan Reedy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IDLE-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev > > > > -- > Thanks, > Andrew Svetlov > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
