[Tutor] Python 2.4 IDLE Windows 2000

[Terry Carroll]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Danny Yoo wrote:

> Lately, the network stuff has been troublesome, since many computers come
> with broken firewall setups.  Do you have firewall software installed?
> Recent versions of IDLE will try to open network sockets to itself, so
> firewall software can actually interfere with it.

Yowza; that's some bug.  Danny, do you happen to know the bug number?  I 
can't find it on sourceforge.

I would expect Idle to at least generate an alert if the port's blocked.