This seems more like a hardware/software question, but I just tried to open my problem set program (in progress) and got an error message. IDLE can't bind TCP/IP port 8833... and more about no networking or another IDLE is using the port.... use the -n command to use it w/o the subprocess... all of which I do not understand. Help, anyone?

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This seems more like a hardware/software question, but I just tried to open my problem set program (in progress) and got an error message.  IDLE can't bind TCP/IP port 8833... and more about no networking or another IDLE is using the port.... use the -n command to use it w/o the subprocess... all of which I do not understand.  Help, anyone?

e.mccormick · Answer

IDLE runs via a network port. See, it feeds things to Python that way. http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~pconrad/cs8/topics/idle/

anonymous · Answer

Thanks. I did have an infinite loop and didn't know how to interrupt.  It's been hours now and still the same message.  two follow-up questions
1.  how to interrupt the running of a program (esc didn't work)?
2.  the document linked in your message said, "... stronger measures may be needed"  Any idea what those might be?  
thanks again.

rbx · Answer

You may use Ctrl + C to break a running program.

rsmith6559 · Answer

2.  You may have to kill the process with Taskmanager, or in *nix, using the kill command.  There are situations where only a reboot will stop a process.

rbx · Answer

@rsmith6559 Yes, seems so. I made an infinite recursion program which I was unable to exit using Ctrl + C. It stopped automatically when maximum depth reached.