IDLE won't start on Mac OSX

[Ned Deily]

In article <550552.57286.qm at web56208.mail.re3.yahoo.com>,
 Dylan Gleason <crazy808s at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am trying to fire up Python ver. 2.7 with IDLE (I am using Mac OSX 10.6.3), 
> but it will not start, citing the following error message:
> 
> >>> IDLE's subprocess didn't make connection. Either IDLE can't start 
> >>> subprocess or 
> >>>personal firewall software is blocking the connection.
> 
> I tried disabling my firewall and restarting but unfortunately I still get 
> the 
> same message.
> 
> I executed Python via the command line and it seemed to work just fine. Can 
> someone help me??

If you downloaded the python.org 2.7 installer for OS X 10.5 or later, 
you are probably running into the problems documented here:
 http://bugs.python.org/issue9227

As a workaround, try downloading and installing the 32-bit Mac Installer 
for 2.7.   The IDLE that it installs *should* work OK on 10.6.

http://python.org/download/releases/2.7/

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org