[Tutor] Socket and Ports

[bob gailer]

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
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