IDLE problem

[moudy]

Hello every one, lone time
I have this problem that I'm newly facing.
I used to open IDLE and no problems occurred.
Suddenly I started to get this error:

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IDLE Subprocess Error
Socket Error: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

followed by this error:

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Subprocess Startup Error
IDLE's subprocess didn't make connection. Either IDLE can't start a subprocess or personal firewall software is blocking the connection.

Also if I open a .py file via right click ---> open with IDLE, it opens normally.
I would just like to know if this could be solved ?
Thanks for any help.

[bad_brain]

hmm...have you checked the processes? could be that an old process wasn't finished properly and is still using the socket...

[moudy]

Job well done bad brain thanks for the advice.
I really didn't even bother to look at process explorer. I figured out that there were two process under the name python.exe running, and its obvious that python isn't running on my desktop.
Few days ago I was working with urllib2 module, probably some thing went wrong while connecting to a website, most probably this was the problem.
I should keep and eye on process explorer more often

[bad_brain]

good you found the reason...
I had similar problems already with apache for example, luckily the error message are more helpful there because you get a "socket already in use" notice. if a socket can't be used the reason in most cases (imo) is that is IS already used....so it was the best guess....

and yeah, process explorer and also tcpview are the most valuable tools for general troubleshooting on Windows systems...