cannot start IDLE in WinXP

[imx]

On 3月18日, 下午5时47分, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> En Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:09:16 -0300, imx <xiong.xu... at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> > Enviroment: WinXP sp2, python 2.5
> > problem: click IDLE using shorcut menu or run phthonw.exe directly,
> > nothing happen! But running python.exe from the command line is fine.
>
> pythonw.exe does not open a window so it's almost invisible.
> IDLE now uses a socket to connect to the subprocess which runs the python
> code; perhaps your firewall is blocking that connection. Try starting IDLE
> with the -n switch.
>
> --
> Gabriel Genellina

Thanks for reply, I've already reinstall xp and now IDLE is ok.

-Xiong