Helpful Resources

• Homepage for Python - the website for all things python
• Official Python reference manual - for version 2.5, the version in the labs
• Python quick reference - If I were you, I would print this out and keep it handy.  It sits on my desk in my office!

• Homepage for your textbook (including source code from the book itself).

• Lab Assignment Submission Policies
• Lab Assignment Submission System

Socket Error Problems

Several of you have encountered a problem attempting to launch IDLE after a crash of python.  You typically get an error indicating a "socket error".  One of your classmates discovered the following about IDLE/Python and how to fix this problem.

"While opening IDLE, the port 8833 must be open for idle to communicate with python.  If you open more than one instance of python ( or crash and have it not close all the way), then you will get a cannot open socket error.  So the simple fix to allow IDLE  to work again while maintaining the security policy is the killpy.exe, a program that will find any and all instances of pythonw.exe."