Re: [Tutor] problem with IDLE

2005-12-01 Thread Danny Yoo
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Daniel McQuay wrote: > Not to be sound ignorant, but what port on local host would that be? Hi Daniel, I believe it's port 8833, at least according to the source code in: http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py One of the error methods has the

Re: [Tutor] problem with IDLE

2005-12-01 Thread Daniel McQuay
Not to be sound ignorant, but what port on local host would that be?On 12/1/05, Liam Clarke-Hutchinson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IDLE uses localhost (a loopback port 127.0.0.1) to communicate with running scripts (so interrupt keys and debugging calls get passed etc.) It's a nice cross p

Re: [Tutor] problem with IDLE

2005-12-01 Thread Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
Title: Message IDLE uses localhost (a loopback port 127.0.0.1) to communicate with running scripts (so interrupt keys and debugging calls get passed etc.) It's a nice cross platform method of interprocess communication.   So yeah, 127.0.0.1 is the one. Regards, Liam Clarke-Hutchinson| Cont

[Tutor] problem with IDLE

2005-12-01 Thread Daniel McQuay
Hello list, I just got a Windows box up and running. When I go to use IDLE I get an error saying something along the lines of, "IDLE was unable to start you may need to shut off the firewall". Now when I shut the firewall off it starts up fine. So my question is, does IDLE try to access a port? i