Allowing a program through windows firewall

Question

I am new to windows Firewall. I have seen this dialog and unable to relate the meaning of it.

The above dialog says that "Allow python to communicate on these networks:". It then gives two checkboxes, one for each Private network and one for Public network.

So, my questions are :- 1) What is the difference between Private network and public network ? Which network out of these, does internet belongs to ?

2) what is the meaning of allowing a program to communicate on given network ? Let's take it from both Client as well as Server perspective. A program(acting as client), when allowed through firewall on a given network(public/private), does it mean that it can establish socket connection with other computers within the same network ? A program(acting as server), when allowed through firewall, does it mean that it can accept socket connections from other computers within the same network ?

3) How can I control a program to either listen for connections OR to establish connections ? By that I mean, How can I control that any python program(python.exe) must not be allowed to listen for connections ?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can easily enable for python just follow the steps:

1. Go to windows settings
2. Then go to update and security-> firewall and network protection-> Allow an app through firewall
3. Then click on change settings
4. Search for python and tick mark both(private and public)

You should be alright to go!