Networking and Internet Protocols

socket, socketserver, select, selectors, urllib, http, ftplib, smtplib, imaplib and webbrowser.

Intermediate

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Sub-topics (7)

Low-level network connections over TCP and UDP.

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A framework for writing simple TCP/UDP servers with handler classes.

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Wait on many sockets at once — the basis of event loops.

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Fetch URLs and parse/encode URL parts without third-party packages.

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HTTP status codes, cookies, a client (http.client) and a basic server.

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Send email (SMTP), read mailboxes (IMAP) and transfer files over FTP.

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Open a URL in the user's default browser.

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