I would be very interested to know if you ever found a solution to this problem as I have just encountered it myself.

I suspected as much and I did a fresh install of everything yesterday. So far Idle and the sockets module seem to be working as expected.

I did have such a file in my home folder but renaming it to something else did not fix the problem. I'm beginning to suspect that my Python install has become corrupted. I have also discovered that attempting to import telnetlib gives me the same error about a socket and it also dumps me back out in...

I am attempting to do some socket programming with Python. I have a fairly good understanding of Python but this is my first attempt at using sockets. I cannot get even the most basic parts of it working and that leads me to think that there is some trick which I am unaware of. I am running Raspbian...