Miscellaneous Network Topics
Modules not discussed
- select - Access to the select() system call. Useful for polling.
- asyncore - A framework for writing highly threaded servers based on asynchronous I/O.
- BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer, CGIHTTPServer - Framework for building web-servers.
A few related extensions
- Fnorb - A CORBA implementation for Python.
- ILU - Distributed Objects.
A small plug
- Python is a great language for experimenting with network programming.
- Can experiment interactively at the prompt.
- Programs are relatively simple.
- Compare to low-level network programming in C.
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