Martin Loewis had me start IDLE from a DOS prompt. The backtrace pointed to an improper installation of tcl.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Facundo Batista &lt;<a href="mailto:report@bugs.python.org">report@bugs.python.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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Facundo Batista &lt;<a href="mailto:facundo@taniquetil.com.ar">facundo@taniquetil.com.ar</a>&gt; added the comment:<br>
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Disable all Operating System firewalls and try again (remember to enable<br>
the firewalls again after the test).<br>
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This was a common problem in WinXP<br>
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