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You're reading from Python Network Programming Cookbook Practical solutions to overcome real-world networking challenges

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463999

Length 450 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

HTTP

Concepts

Networking

Authors (3):

Pradeeban Kathiravelu

Gary Berger

Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. Sockets, IPv4, and Simple Client/Server Programming FREE CHAPTER

2. Multiplexing Socket I/O for Better Performance

3. IPv6, Unix Domain Sockets, and Network Interfaces

4. Programming with HTTP for the Internet

5. Email Protocols, FTP, and CGI Programming

6. Programming Across Machine Boundaries

7. Working with Web Services – XML-RPC, SOAP, and REST

8. Network Monitoring and Security

9. Network Modeling

10. Getting Started with SDN

11. Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)

12. Open and Proprietary Networking Solutions

13. NFV and Orchestration – A Larger Ecosystem

14. Programming the Internet

Building asynchronous network applications with Twisted

Twisted is an event-driven network engine written in Python. Twisted can be used to develop asynchronous and publish/subscribe based Python applications.

Getting ready

You need to install the third-party Python module, twisted. This can be grabbed from PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/Twisted/). Both on Windows and Linux hosts, you may need to install some additional packages. The installation procedure is documented at https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/.

Follow the following guidelines to install Twisted in your Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distributions.

Twisted suggests against installing anything into global site-package. It recommends using virtualenv to set up isolated publish/subscribe modules. virtualenv is a product aimed to create isolated execution environments for Python. While we can indeed make Twisted work by directly installing the bundles using pip, we respect the suggestion of Twisted, and follow their installation guidelines...