Utilize Python 3 to get network applications up and running quickly and easily
About This Book
- Leverage your Python programming skills to build powerful network applications
- Explore steps to interact with a wide range of network services
- Design multithreaded and event-driven architectures for echo and chat servers
In Detail
Network programming has always been a demanding task. With full-featured and well documented libraries all the way up the stack, Python makes network programming the enjoyable experience it should be.
Starting with a walkthrough of today's major networking protocols, with this book you'll learn how to employ Python for network programming, how to request and retrieve web resources, and how to extract data in major formats over the Web. You'll utilize Python for e-mailing using different protocols and you'll interact with remote systems and IP and DNS networking.
As the book progresses, socket programming will be covered, followed by how to design servers and the pros and cons of multithreaded and event-driven architectures. You'll develop practical client-side applications, including web API clients, e-mail clients, SSH, and FTP. These applications will also be implemented through existing web application frameworks.
What You Will Learn
- Develop an understanding of network stacks and the power of encapsulation
- Design high-performance network server applications
- Implement socket-based network applications using asynchronous models
- Build client applications for major web APIs, including Amazon S3 and Twitter
- Interact with e-mail servers using SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols
- Deal with remote network servers using SSH, FTP, SNMP, SMB/CIFS, and LDAP protocols
- Work with IP addresses including Geo-IP lookups
- Download objects from the Web and craft custom HTTP requests with urllib and the Requests library
Sarker, M. Omar Faruque: - Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker is a software architect based in London, UK, where he has been shaping various Linux and open source software solutions, mainly on cloud computing platforms, for commercial companies, educational institutions, and multinational consultancies. Over the past 10 years, he has been leading a number of Python software development and cloud infrastructure automation projects. In 2009, he started using Python, where he was responsible for shepherding a fleet of miniature E-puck robots at the University of South Wales, Newport, UK. Later, he honed his Python skills, and he was invited to work on the Google Summer of Code (2009/2010) programs for contributing to the BlueZ and Tahoe-LAFS open source projects. He is the author of Python Network Programming Cookbook, Packt Publishing. He received his PhD in multirobot systems from the University of South Wales. He is currently working at University College London. He takes an active interest in cloud computing, software security, intelligent systems, and child-centric education. He lives in East London with his wife, Shahinur, and daughter, Ayesha.
Washington, Sam: - Sam Washington currently works at University College London as a systems administrator in the platform integration team of the central IT department, supporting a variety of web hosting and network services. He enjoys the daily challenges of managing the demands of full-stack enterprise web applications and looking for ways to employ new technologies to improve services and workflows. He has been using Python for professional and personal projects for over 10 years.
