Pamela Wightley <[email protected]> Wrote in message: > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
You apparently are running Windows, and in a corporate environment. You don't tell us your Python version, but in this case my advice doesn’t care. IDLE works by creating two processes, IDLE itself and your Python code. Those processes then have to talk to each other, presumably by using network sockets. Any computer with network access should protect itself from hackers and network intrusions, and first line of defense is usually a firewall. If you're in a corporate environment, the IT department has probably got that tightly controlled. So the next step would presumably be getting them to open a cat door for you. They'll have to know IDLE enough to figure out what port to use, or to configure IDLE to use one they already have open. I haven't done anything important in Windows for years so I can't be more specific than that. A better answer is probably to skip IDLE. I've never used it, nor missed it. You can do most anything you want from a cmd prompt (DOS box). Start python from there, and play to learn from there. You'll also need a good programming editor (not Notepad), but there are many free choices. One is Komodo Editor, but I only mention that because it's a subset of the not-free Komodo IDE that I use sometimes. Mostly I use emacs. You will want to configure your DOS Box to make it easier to cut and paste. That way you can copy back and forth between there and the editor or a browser window or an email program. -- DaveA _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
