Foundations of Python Network Programming: The comprehensive guide to building network applications with Python / Edition 2

by John Goerzen, Tim Bower, Brandon Rhodes

Overview

This second edition of Foundations of Python Network Programming targets Python 2.5 through Python 2.7, the most popular production versions of the language. Python has made great strides since Apress released the first edition of this book back in the days of Python 2.3. The advances required new chapters to be written from the ground up, and others to be extensively revised.

You will learn fundamentals like IP, TCP, DNS and SSL by using working Python programs; you will also be able to familiarize yourself with infrastructure components like memcached and message queues. You can also delve into network server designs, and compare threaded approaches with asynchronous event-based solutions.

But the biggest change is this edition's expanded treatment of the web. The HTTP prool is covered in extensive detail, with each feature accompanied by sample Python code. You can use your HTTP prool expertise by studying an entire chapter on screen scraping and you can then test lxml and BeautifulSoup against a real-world web site. The chapter on web application programming now covers both the WSGI standard for component interoperability, as well as modern web frameworks like Django.

Finally, all of the old favorites from the first edition are back: E-mail prools like SMTP, POP, and IMAP get full treatment, as does XML-RPC. You can still learn how to code Python network programs using the Telnet and FTP prools, but you are likely to appreciate the power of more modern alternatives like the paramiko SSH2 library. If you are a Python programmer who needs to learn the network, this is the book that you want by your side.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430230038
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/21/2010
Series:	Books for Professionals by Professionals
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

John Goerzen is an accomplished author, system administrator, and Python programmer. He has been a Debian developer since 1996 and is currently president of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. His previously published books include the Linux Programming Bible, Debian Unleashed, and Linux Unleashed.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction to Client/Server Networking.- 2 UDP.- 3 TCP.- 4 Socket Names and DNS.- 5 Network Data and Network Errors.- 6 TLS and SSL.- 7 Server Architecture.- 8 Caches, Message Queues, and Map-Reduce.- 9 HTTP.- 10 Screen Scraping.- 11 Web Applications.- 12 E-mail Composition and Decoding.- 14 SMTP.- 14 POP.- 15 IMAP.- 16 Telnet and SSH.- 17 FTP.- 18 RPC.