On 10/16/2011 8:28 AM, Jacob Bender wrote:
Dear Tutors,
I've been having an issue with socket. I wanted to use it for
transmitting strings over the Internet.
That's good, because strings is all you can transmit.
The problem is that my friend insists that allowing python to transmit
and receive information via an Internet port is a bad idea. He claimed
that I could(and probably would) receive information that wouldn't
necessarily do my computer any good(in a nutshell).
I am not the expert on this issue. My view:
once you establish a socket connection then you wait to receive data.
All the socket software (Python or other) does is receive a string. What
you do with it is up to you. If you apply eval or exec to it than
anything could happen. No one can IMHO cause any action via socket.
[snip]
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Bob Gailer
919-636-4239
Chapel Hill NC
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