Subprocess Connection Error

[Dan Stromberg]

Does this help?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29567051/python-error-idles-subprocess-didnt-make-connection-either-idle-cant-start


On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:44 PM Dave Dungan via Python-list <
python-list at python.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I bought a book called Coding for Beginners to learn how to code using
> Python. The first few exercises went fine. When I got to the page called
> Recognizing types and did the exercise and saved it and tried to run the
> module it comes up with a Subprocess Connection Error. It says, "IDLE's
> subprocess didn't make connection. See the Start up failure section of the
> IDLE doc, online at
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html#startup-failure." I went
> there and it said to try uninstalling python and then reinstalling it. I
> did this and it did the same thing again. It also said something about it
> is because of the antivirus software. I tried installing python on a
> different computer and it happened at the exact same place in the exercises
> in the book. I am far from being a computer whiz, just thought it would be
> fun to learn some simple coding. Any help would be appreciated. One more
> thing, the book says to save it as "types.py".
>
> Thank you,
> Dave Dungan
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