Programming Python, 3rd Edition

13.1. "Tune In, Log On, and Drop Out" Over the last decade, the Internet has virtually exploded onto the mainstream stage. It has rapidly grown from a simple communication device used primarily by academics and researchers into a medium that is no...

13.2. Plumbing the Internet Unless you've been living in a cave for the last decade, you are probably already familiar with the Internet, at least from a user's perspective. Functionally, we use it as a communication and information medium...

13.3. Socket Programming Now that we've seen how sockets figure into the Internet picture, let's move on to explore the tools that Python provides for programming sockets with Python scripts. This section shows you how to use t...

13.4. Handling Multiple Clients The echo client and server programs shown previously serve to illustrate socket fundamentals. But the server model suffers from a fairly major flaw: if multiple clients try to connect to th...

13.5. A Simple Python File Server Time for something more realistic; let's conclude this chapter by putting some of these socket ideas to work doing something a bit more useful than echoing text back and forth. Example 13-10 implements both t...