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...IDLE configuration files has changed between Python 2.3 and 2.4. It has been reported that users with custom IDLE color syntax settings can no longer start IDLE. If this is the case, manually delete $HOME/.idlerc. When IDLE restarts, it should produce a clean set of configuration files. See SourceForge number 1080387. The Windows installer will not add correct IDLE and PyDoc entries when the Python target directory contains a space in its name (e.g. C:\Program Files\python24). In this case,...
...IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. IDLE fails to start on Windows if installed to a directory with a space (e.g. C:\Program Files). Fix the prob...
...idlelib\idle.pyw" and "C:\Program Files\python24\Tools\scripts\pydocgui.pyw" This will not be a problem if Python is installed into its default location (i.e. c:\python24). IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall...
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Released: July 13, 2020
This is the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.4, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. Major new features of …
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...IDLE and Tkinter on OS X page for more information. You can run a Python interpreter by double-clicking on Applications / Utilities / Terminal and typing python3 (if you've installed a version of Python 3) or python (to use Python 2) in the window that opens up. You can also launch IDLE for the Python version you have installed by double-clicking its icon in the appropriate Python version folder in the Applications folder or you can also just type idle3 or idle in a terminal window. There are m...
...IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs on some Red Hat systems. (This test is only run when regrtest.py is...
Released: July 4, 2019
This is a beta preview of Python 3.8 Python 3.8 is still in development. This release, 3.8.0b2 is the second of four planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects …
...IDLE now executes code in a separate process. To communicate between the main process and executing processes, IDLE opens a socket to 127.0.0.1 (the local machine). Some firewalls running on Windows machines interfere with this and can cause either silent failures or erroneous popup windows from the firewall. This problem only occurs if you run a firewall on the same machine as IDLE. Build bugs Some platforms require some tinkering to get a clean build of Python. Some sort of weird dynamic...
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