Python Programming/Networks
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Sockets
[edit | edit source ]Python can also communicate via sockets.
Connecting to a server
[edit | edit source ]This simple Python program will fetch a 4096 byte HTTP response from Google:
importsocket,sys sock = socket.socket ( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM ) sock.connect ( ( "google.com", 80 ) ) sock.send('GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n') sock.send('User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (wikibooks test)\r\n\r\n') print(sock.recv(4096))
High-level interfaces
[edit | edit source ]Most Python developers will prefer to use a high-level interface over using sockets, such as Twisted and urllib2.