[Tutor] Idle and windows XP firewall

[Lie Ryan]

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> Why would your firewall be blocking idle? Does idle connect to the
> internet?

No, but since IDLE itself is written in Python, it use a really weird
way to communicate with the python process. I don't know the details of
that really weird way, but it involves the possibility of a firewall
blocking IDLE. The safe way if you can't configure firewall is to open
IDLE without subprocess.

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