socket error when loading the shell?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:28:13 -0300, <vokinloksar at yahoo.se> escribió:

> tried wi5th the normal IDLE too and it worked later after i posted
> this but now it doesnt work again. and i havent chnaged my firewall in
> between.

Perhaps any other running process has opened the port that IDLE uses to  
communicate with the running program. Or you have IDLE already running.  
See if you have python.exe/pythonw.exe processes running.
Or go to Help, IDLE Help, and read the section "Running without a  
subprocess"

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Gabriel Genellina