Hello. I recently installed a new SSD on my macbook pro (mid2009 running mavericks). Now after booting up the text editor automatically pops up on the desktop with the header quopri_codec.py What is this and should i be concerned about it?

Question

here's the script in full:
"""Codec for quoted-printable encoding.
Like base64 and rot13, this returns Python strings, not Unicode.
import codecs, quopri
try:
    from cStringIO import StringIO
except ImportError:
    from StringIO import StringIO
def quopri_encode(input, errors='strict'):
    """Encode the input, returning a tuple (output object, length consumed).
    errors defines the error handling to apply. It defaults to
    'strict' handling which is the only currently supported
    error handling for this codec.
    assert errors == 'strict'
    f = StringIO(input)
    g = StringIO()
    quopri.encode(f, g, 1)
    output = g.getvalue()
    return (output, len(input))
def quopri_decode(input, errors='strict'):
    """Decode the input, returning a tuple (output object, length consumed).
    errors defines the error handling to apply. It defaults to
    'strict' handling which is the only currently supported
    error handling for this codec.
    assert errors == 'strict'
    f = StringIO(input)
    g = StringIO()
    quopri.decode(f, g)
    output = g.getvalue()
    return (output, len(input))
class Codec(codecs.Codec):
    def encode(self, input,errors='strict'):
        return quopri_encode(input,errors)
    def decode(self, input,errors='strict'):
        return quopri_decode(input,errors)
class IncrementalEncoder(codecs.IncrementalEncoder):
    def encode(self, input, final=False):
        return quopri_encode(input, self.errors)[0]
class IncrementalDecoder(codecs.IncrementalDecoder):
    def decode(self, input, final=False):
        return quopri_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
class StreamWriter(Codec, codecs.StreamWriter):
    pass
class StreamReader(Codec,codecs.StreamReader):
    pass
# encodings module API
def getregentry():
    return codecs.CodecInfo(
        name='quopri',
        encode=quopri_encode,
        decode=quopri_decode,
        incrementalencoder=IncrementalEncoder,
        incrementaldecoder=IncrementalDecoder,
        streamwriter=StreamWriter,
        streamreader=StreamReader,

Answer 1

Thanks for the info. I'm not really sure how or why this python script is running when my macbook starts up. Any ideas how i can locate the script and stop it from running?