[Idle-dev] No network card, no IDLE

[Hernan Martinez Foffani]

Bruce Sherwood
> ....
> a run (F5), but why doesn't IDLE at least start up in the absence of a 
> network card?

May be I'm totally wrong on this, so "handle with care" what follows.

IDLEfork behind scenes takes 2 process to run. They use TCP/IP to
communicate between each other. It's possible that IDLE can't find
TCP/IP stack since your PC lacks a network adapter.
I guess that you can fix that problem installing the Microsoft
loopback adapter. It's a driver which is included in every Windows dist.

Hope that helps,
-Hernan