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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook Over 100 recipes to fully leverage the features of the standard library in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830829
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alessandro Molina Alessandro Molina
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Containers and Data Structures 2. Text Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Command Line 4. Filesystem and Directories 5. Date and Time 6. Read/Write Data 7. Algorithms 8. Cryptography 9. Concurrency 10. Networking 11. Web Development 12. Multimedia 13. Graphical User Interfaces 14. Development Tools 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sockets

Sockets are one of the lowest-level concepts that you can use to write networking applications. It means managing the whole connection ourselves, usually when relying on sockets directly, you would have to handle connection requests, accept them, and then start a thread or a loop to handle the subsequent commands or data that is sent through the newly created connection channel.

This is a flow that nearly all applications that rely on networking have to implement, everything you call a server usually has as a foundation in the aforementioned loop.

The Python standard library provides a great foundation to avoid having to manually rewrite that flow every time you have to work on a networking-based application. We can use the socketserver module and let it handle the connection loop for us, while we focus on just implementing the application layer protocol and handling messages...

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