Core Python Applications Programming, 3rd Edition

Chapter 2. Network Programming

So, IPv6. You all know that we are almost out of IPv4 address space. I am a little embarrassed about that because I was the guy who decided that 32-bit was enough for the Internet experiment. My only defense is that that choice was made in 1977, and I thought it was an experiment. The problem is the experiment didn’t end, so here we are.

—Vint Cerf, January 2011¹(verbally at linux.conf.au conference)

In this chapter...

• Introduction

• What Is Client/Server Architecture?

• Sockets: Communication Endpoints

• Network Programming in Python

• *The SocketServer Module

• *Introduction to the Twisted Framework

• Related Modules

2.1. Introduction

In this section, we will take a brief look at network programming using sockets. ...