IDLE Won't Start w/o Socket Error--Win XP

[Mike Driscoll]

On Feb 12, 2:18 pm, "W. Watson" <wolf_tra... at invalid.com> wrote:
> After simply trying to write a program with help(MakeQTE), a module, and
> having it fail with socket errors, I decided to restart IDLE, thinking I
> knew the cause. I'm now getting msgs like: "IDLE's subprocess didn't make
> connection. ... firewall may be blocking the connection." I doubt the FW
> connection. There's a small X warning dialog that says "Socket Error:
> Connection refused." Is there a way to reset IDLE?
> --
>                           Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA)
>
>                         Web Page: <speckledwithStars.net>

I sometimes get this message when one of my programs fails to shutdown
properly. I program almost exclusively in Windows, so I open Task
Manager and kill all instance of Python.exe to fix this problem. I
have seen ZoneAlarm flag IDLE when I first installed Python, so if you
upgraded it recently, the firewall may be an issue.

Mike