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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
About the author
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.
