Does anyone know why Eclipse is asking for incoming network connections? I searched around and saw mentions of Code Completion with PyDev, but I disabled code completion in PyDev, restarted, and was still prompted for incoming network connections.
PyDev spawns a shell and connects to it to request information on builtin modules (besides using it to debug a process).
I.e.: The shell is spawn at https://github.com/fabioz/Pydev/blob/master/plugins/org.python.pydev/src_completions/org/python/pydev/editor/codecompletion/shell/PythonShell.java
and used in:
So, this may be triggered at multiple places in PyDev (whenever a code completion, code analysis or indexing is done it may be requested and a request for any builtin module is done -- i.e.: anything in forced builtins as explained in http://www.pydev.org/manual_101_interpreter.html).
So, in order to function properly, PyDev really needs that connection to work (otherwise completions and code analysis may not work properly), which means you really have to clear it in your firewall (at least for local connections -- remote connections are only needed if you're going to use the remote debugger).