Python in Practice: Create Better Programs Using Concurrency, Libraries, and Patterns

6. High-Level Networking in Python

§6.1. Writing XML-RPC Applications

§6.1.1. A Data Wrapper

§6.1.2. Writing XML-RPC Servers

§6.1.3. Writing XML-RPC Clients

§6.2. Writing RPyC Applications

§6.2.1. A Thread-Safe Data Wrapper

§6.2.2. Writing RPyC Servers

§6.2.3. Writing RPyC Clients

The Python standard library has excellent support for networking all the way from low to high level. Low-level support is provided by modules such as socket, ssl, asyncore, and asynchat, and mid-level support by, for example, the socketserver module. Higher-level support is provided by the many modules that support various Internet protocols, including, most notably, the http and urllib modules.

There are also a number of third-party modules that support networking, ...