James Alan Farrell wrote: > Hello, > I recently installed new anti-virus software and was surprised the > next time I brought up IDLE, that it was accessing the internet. > > I dislike software accessing the internet without telling me about it, > especially because of my slow dial up connection (there is no option > where I live), but also because I feel it unsafe.
It is not accessing the internet. It is opening up a local socket connection to communicate with a separate (but still local!) process for the interactive interpreter. > Can anyone recommend an interpreter that does not access the internet > when it starts (or when it is running, unless I specifically write a > program that causes it to do so, so as a browser)? The regular interpreter works fine. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
