Rob wrote: > I have Python 2.4.3 installed on Windows XP on both a real computer and a > virtual machine under VMware. Just recently, IDLE stopped working. I would > select IDLE from the start menu or right click on a .PY file and open it in > IDLE, but nothing happens. I just uninstalled Python on the virtual machine > and installed 2.5 in the hope that that would fix the problem, but it > didn't. It, too, would do nothing when I tried to run IDLE. In both cases, > the Python command line window will come up, but that's not what I want to > use. > > Does anyone know of a way to fix this problem? Is there a new Windows > update that is now interfering with IDLE? Would Norton Antivirus be > interfering with it somehow? (It's running in both environments.) Likely something turned on firewall behavior. You can check out this theory:
On your background, right-click and "New Shortcut" then browse to "C:\Python25\pythonw.exe" (or wherever your Python is). When that shortcut has been made, right-click it, and change The "target" from: "C:\Python25\pythonw.exe" to: "C:\Python25\pythonw.exe -m idlelib.idle -n" If this shortcut works to give you Idle, the problem is in creating a separate process linked via a socket to "localhost" port 8833. --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list