Sockets programming in Python

Level: Intermediate

M. Tim Jones (mtj@mtjones.com), Senior Principal Software Engineer, Emulex Corp.

04 Oct 2005

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This tutorial shows how to develop sockets-based networking applications using Python. In this tutorial, you first learn a few Python basics and see why Python makes a good network programming language. Then you move on to the basic sockets features of Python, using a sample chat application as a guide, and look at several other, high-level, classes that provide asynchronous communications.

In this tutorial

• Review the basics of the sockets API
  
  
• Learn how to build networking applications in Python
  
  
• Examine a simple chat server implemented in Python
  
  
• Preview some of Python's high-level networking classes
  

Objectives

By the end of this tutorial, you will know how to use the standard sockets module to build both client and server applications, as well as how to use the SocketServer module to simplify the construction of simple socket servers.

Prerequisites

You should have a basic knowledge of Python.

System requirements

None.

Duration

More than two hours

Formats

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