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| author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2003-07-27 20:23:49 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2003-07-27 20:23:49 (GMT) |
| commit | c794a1cb2f5df8dbd7041b263bea4cabd3105f23 (patch) | |
| tree | 7ae8b7f312569c08e4809492bf32a5c45451e093 /Misc | |
| parent | 220fecf0f45b7ad6dde43a60e33f755793d8318d (diff) | |
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Gave the main NEWS file its own IDLE section, and populated it with a
blurb about ZoneAlarm (etc) nags.
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@@ -41,10 +41,20 @@ Library was needed to actually fix the problem, the cache code was not restored. -Tools/Demos ------------ +IDLE +---- -- Calltips patches in IDLE. +- IDLE displays a new message upon startup: some "personal firewall" + kinds of programs (for example, ZoneAlarm) open a dialog of their + own when any program opens a socket. IDLE does use sockets, talking + on the computer's internal loopback interface. This connection is not + visible on any external interface and no data is sent to or received + from the Internet. So, if you get such a dialog when opening IDLE, + asking whether to let pythonw.exe talk to address 127.0.0.1, say yes, + and rest assured no communication external to your machine is taking + place. If you don't allow it, IDLE won't be able to start. + +- Calltips patches. Build ----- |