Either IDLE Can't Start a subprocess or a firewall software firewall is blocking the connection (Win)--Battlin McAfee

[W. eWatson]

See Subject msg from Python 2.5 Win XP. It is preceded by a "Socket 
Error". It happened while I had a simple program displayed, and I wanted 
to see the shell. The msg occurred when I pressed Shell on Run from the 
menu. I played around for awhile, but got nowhere. Same msg. I did 
remove my McAfee firewall protection, and it worked once, but reverted 
to not working.

I rebooted and the first time I could use Shell, it succeeded. After 
that it failed. Comments? Geeze! Mcaffe turned on the firewall again 
after the reboot.

All seems well now. Nope. McAfee turned the firewall back on. It decided 
to warn me it was off, but now has allowed me to ignore the fact it is 
"no longer protecting me". I'll just let Win firewall do that, thank you.

Nope it's back. I'll just stop here and let anyone who wants to just 
chime in. If I get it to stop, I'll be back.