Learning Python Networking: A complete guide to build and deploy strong networking capabilities using Python 3.7 and Ansible , Second Edition

An introduction to TCP/IP networking

Protocol concepts and the problems that protocols solve

Addressing

Python network programming through libraries

Interacting with Wireshark with pyshark

Programming for the Web with HTTP

Consuming web services in Python with urllib

Consuming web services in Python with requests

Handling forms with urllib and requests with Python 3.7

Handling cookies with urllib and requests with Python

Handling HTTP Basic and Digest Authentication with requests

Section 2: Interacting with APIs, Web Scraping, and Server Scripting

Application Programming Interface in Action

Introduction to REST APIs

Introduction to JSON and the JSON module

Interacting with a JSON hybrid-REST API (Twitter)

Introduction to XML

Working with XML and a full REST API (Amazon S3 bucket) with the Boto module

Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup and Scrapy

Introduction to web scraping

Extracting information from web pages and parsing HTML with BeautifulSoup

Introduction to Scrapy components and architecture

Scrapy as a framework for performing web crawling processes and data analysis

Working with Scrapy in the cloud

Engaging with Email

Introduction to email protocols

Sending emails with SMTP through the smtplib library

Learning the POP3 protocol and retrieving emails with poplib

Manipulating and retrieving emails on the server email using IMAP with imapclient and imaplib

Interacting with Remote Systems

Understanding the SSH protocol

SSH terminals and running commands with paramiko

Understanding the FTP protocol for transferring files

Reading and interacting with SNMP servers

Reading and interacting with LDAP servers

Section 3: IP Address Manipulation and Network Automation

Working with IP and DNS

Principles of the IP protocol

Retrieving the network configuration of a local machine

Using Python to manipulate IP addresses and perform CIDR calculations

The dnspython module as a tool for extracting information from DNS servers

GeoIP lookups with pygeoip and python-geoip

Implementing IPv6 and Address Manipulation

Learning and understanding the IPv6 protocol

Create an echo client and server with IPv6

Understanding netifaces module for checking IPv6 support on your network

Using the netaddr module as a network-address manipulation library for Python

Understand ipaddress module as IPv4 and IPv6 manipulation library

Performing Network Automation with Python and Ansible

Ansible's components and architecture

Basics of Ansible

Automating network Python tasks with Ansible

Writing Ansible modules with Python

Section 4: Sockets and Server Programming

Programming with Sockets

Working with UDP and TCP sockets in Python 3.7

Basics of sockets

Working with IPv6 sockets in Python 3.7

Non-blocking and asynchronous socket I/O

HTTPS and securing sockets with TLS

Designing Servers and Asynchronous Programming

Building a multiprocessing-based TCP server

Building asynchronous applications with asyncio and aiohttp

Building asynchronous network applications with Tornado

Building asynchronous network applications with Twisted

Building asynchronous network applications with Celery

Designing Applications on the Web

Writing a web application with WSGI

Existing web application frameworks (Django, Flask, and Plone)

The MVC pattern and dynamic web programming with Python

Creating RESTful web applications and working with Flask and HTTP requests

Working with a database in Flask with SQLAlchemy