Python - Network Programming



The threading module in Python's standard library is capable of handling multiple threads and their interaction within a single process. Communication between two processes running on the same machine is handled by Unix domain sockets, whereas for the processes running on different machines connected with TCP (Transmission control protocol), Internet domain sockets are used.

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Python's standard library consists of various built-in modules that support interprocess communication and networking. Python provides two levels of access to the network services. At a low level, you can access the basic socket support in the underlying operating system, which allows you to implement clients and servers for both connection-oriented and connectionless protocols.

Python also has libraries that provide higher-level access to specific application-level network protocols, such as FTP, HTTP, and so on.

Protocol Common function Port No Python module
HTTP Web pages 80 httplib, urllib, xmlrpclib
NNTP Usenet news 119 nntplib
FTP File transfers 20 ftplib, urllib
SMTP Sending email 25 smtplib
POP3 Fetching email 110 poplib
IMAP4 Fetching email 143 imaplib
Telnet Command lines 23 telnetlib
Gopher Document transfers 70 gopherlib, urllib
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