[Tutor] problem with IDLE

[Daniel McQuay]

Not to be sound ignorant, but what port on local host would that be?

On 12/1/05, Liam Clarke-Hutchinson <Liam.Clarke-Hutchinson at business.govt.nz>
wrote:
>
> IDLE uses localhost (a loopback port 127.0.0.1) to communicate with
> running scripts (so interrupt keys and debugging calls get passed etc.) It's
> a nice cross platform method of interprocess communication.
>
> So yeah, 127.0.0.1 is the one.
>
> Regards,
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> *Subject:* [Tutor] problem with IDLE
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> Hello list,
>
> I just got a Windows box up and running. When I go to use IDLE I get an
> error saying something along the lines of, "IDLE was unable to start you may
> need to shut off the firewall". Now when I shut the firewall off it starts
> up fine. So my question is, does IDLE try to access a port? if so, what
> port? I would like to be able to make rule so that I can keep the firewall
> running and have no problem starting IDLE.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
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