[Visualpython-users] Beopen v2.0 for Win (fwd)

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

Any ideas? Sounds very bizarre.

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Date: Thursday, March 29, 2001 23:50 -0800
From: Larry Watts <lw...@ca...>
To: je...@py...
Subject: Beopen v2.0 for Win

> Hi
>  This might be old news but I recently installed this version along with
> VPython of 030801 from the Visual Python web site on my home Win98
> machine that has Zone Alarm installed. When I start up idle which has
> been modified by the Vpython folks I get a warning message occasionally
> asking if I want pythonw.exe to be a server and when I try to run one of
> examples programs from idle I again am asked if I wish to let
> pythonw.exe access the internet. Is this the norm? Is ET trying to phone
> home or what? If I say no then the example program (bounce.py) doesn't
> run. If I say yes then it appears to work properly, and I am obviously a
> little paranoid about this behaviour since when I have run this at work
> on Win NT4 from behind a firewall and no ZoneAlarm I have never noted
> this behaviour. Is Zonealarm correct or is it being fooled by something
> inherent in the python code?
>
> Larry Watts
>
> lw...@ca...
> lw...@bc...
>

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