Learning Python Network Programming

•  Author: Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker and Sam Washington
• Language: English
• Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account (June 30, 2015)
• Pages: 277
• Size:  6 MB
• Format: mobi
• ISBN-13: 978-1784396008

Utilize Python 3 to get network applications up and running quickly and easily

About This Book

• Leverage your Python programming skills to build powerful network applications
• Explore steps to interact with a wide range of network services
• Design multithreaded and event-driven architectures for echo and chat servers

Who This Book Is For

If you're a Python developer or a system administrator with Python experience and you're looking to take your first steps in network programming, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Python is assumed.

What You Will Learn

• Develop an understanding of network stacks and the power of encapsulation
• Design high-performance network server applications
• Implement socket-based network applications using asynchronous models
• Build client applications for major web APIs, including Amazon S3 and Twitter
• Interact with e-mail servers using SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols
• Deal with remote network servers using SSH, FTP, SNMP, SMB/CIFS, and LDAP protocols
• Work with IP addresses including Geo-IP lookups
• Download objects from the Web and craft custom HTTP requests with urllib and the Requests library