[Python-Dev] IDLE - firewall warning (original) (raw)

Gregor Lingl glingl at aon.at
Fri Jul 14 11:33:13 CEST 2006

I have posted the following message to idle-dev, but no reply yet. Just a suggestion:

The firewall warning message in the Pythonshell window was introduced in Python 2.3 (IDLE 1.0 or something similar?)

I remember well the problems, to which it was the answer. (If I remember correctly I was involved in the discussion thread which led to the introduction of that message.)

Since more than three years I've used IDLE on many different systems and I didn't encounter a single Firewall warning since then. (It seems that firewalls nowadays are not offended by the use of 127.0.0.1)

Therefore, and because the message is long and ugly, I'd like to suggest to delete it from the Python Shell window and - if considered necessary - for instance to put it into the IDLE Help - "About IDLE" submenu or in a special IDLE-Firewall warning submenu of IDLE-Help.

Please observe that it pops up thousands of times and it's read at most once.

Or perhaps a single-line message like === subprocesses use internal loopback interface === would do it, just to signal where you are as does the respective line in -n mode.?

Regards, Gregor Lingl

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