On Jun 25, 6:07 pm, James Alan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > 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)? > > James Alan Farrell
It is a false alarm. The IP address 127.0.0.1 is a reserved address that means "this computer". It is more commonly known as "localhost". A server application can bind to 127.0.0.1 and it can be accessed by a client application running on the same computer. This is what IDLE is doing. It is not accessing the Internet. It is only using the IP protocol to communicate between different parts of the application. The anti-virus application should be configured to allow use of 127.0.0.1. But coming from a corporate IT world, I'm not surprised that it is not reasonably configured.... casevh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
