[Tutor] problem with IDLE

[Danny Yoo]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Daniel McQuay wrote:

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


Hi Daniel,

I believe it's port 8833, at least according to the source code in:

http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Lib/idlelib/PyShell.py

One of the error methods has the content:

#######################################################################
    def display_port_binding_error(self):
        tkMessageBox.showerror(
            "Port Binding Error",
            "IDLE can't bind TCP/IP port 8833, which is necessary to "
            "communicate with its Python execution server.  Either "
            "no networking is installed on this computer or another "
            "process (another IDLE?) is using the port.  Run IDLE with the
-n "
            "command line switch to start without a subprocess and refer
to "
            "Help/IDLE Help 'Running without a subprocess' for further "
            "details.",
########################################################################


Hope this helps!