James Alan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently installed new anti-virus software and was surprised the > next time I brought up IDLE, that it was accessing the internet.
See the message it displays when you start it. It's not really accessing the internet, it's opening a socket to another process running on the same machine. Try unplugging your network cable and running idle and you'll see the socket connection still succeeds. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
