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Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

By : José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington
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Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

By: José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington

Overview of this book

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 walk through of today's major networking protocols, through 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 will utilize Python for emailing using different protocols, and you'll interact with remote systems and IP and DNS networking. You will cover the connection of networking devices and configuration using Python 3.7, along with cloud-based network management tasks using Python. 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 clientside applications, including web API clients, email clients, SSH, and FTP. These applications will also be implemented through existing web application frameworks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introduction to Network and HTTP Programming
4
Section 2: Interacting with APIs, Web Scraping, and Server Scripting
9
Section 3: IP Address Manipulation and Network Automation
13
Section 4: Sockets and Server Programming

Understanding netifaces module for checking IPv6 support on your network

In this section, the reader will learn how to use the netifaces Python module to check IPv6 support.

Introduction to netifaces

If you want to query the network interfaces available on your computer, you can use the netifaces module. We can use a third-party library, netifaces, to find out whether there is IPv6 support on your machine. You can install it with the pip command:

pip install netifaces
For more information, you can explore the netifaces documentation: https://pypi.org/project/netifaces/.

We can call the interfaces() function from this library to list all interfaces present in the system. This script will give a list of all interfaces, and IPv4...