error

[me]

whenever i try and run my Python GUI, my computer thinks for a sec, then
drops the process, without ever displaying the window. the command prompt
window seems to work fine, but the IDLE GUI won't start.

i'm running Windows 2K professional and python 2.4, so any advice help would
be appreciated. i've already tried reinstalling and use a thread response,
as the e-mail on this account is bogus.

[Robert Toop]

Re: error

http://www.python.org/2.4/bugs.html

....suggests that firewall running on python host (read Windows software
firewall) may block the localhost TCP connection required between IDLE
parent and child processes. I don't think this problem is specific to python
2.4. IDLE should work if you change firewall config to allow local (i.e.
intramural) TCP connections.
HTH
/old goat/


"me" <m@e.net> wrote in message news:RAfJd.37$5 87.2870@news.us west.net...[color=blue]
> whenever i try and run my Python GUI, my computer thinks for a sec, then
> drops the process, without ever displaying the window. the command prompt
> window seems to work fine, but the IDLE GUI won't start.
>
> i'm running Windows 2K professional and python 2.4, so any advice help[/color]
would[color=blue]
> be appreciated. i've already tried reinstalling and use a thread response,
> as the e-mail on this account is bogus.
>
>[/color]

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: error

"me" <m@e.net> wrote:
[color=blue]
> whenever i try and run my Python GUI, my computer thinks for a sec, then
> drops the process, without ever displaying the window. the command prompt
> window seems to work fine, but the IDLE GUI won't start.
>
> i'm running Windows 2K professional and python 2.4, so any advice help would
> be appreciated. i've already tried reinstalling and use a thread response,
> as the e-mail on this account is bogus.[/color]

have you tried tweaking your firewall settings? idle uses socket communication
between its processes, and some firewalls may interfere with this. see:

http://www.python.org/2.4/bugs.html

as a last resort, there's also a way to run idle in "single process" mode:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/383376

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