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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

Questions

  1. What is the format for an Ansible configuration file?
  2. What is the name and the path of the main Ansible configuration file?
  3. Where is the inventory file located by default and what is the format of that file?
  4. What are the two ways to execute commands with Ansible?
  5. What does being agentless mean?
  6. What is the Ansible command to check the hostname of the IP addresses available in the inventory file?
  7. How can we use one Ansible task to install multiple packages in the hosts defined in the inventory file?
  8. What is the main class that the Ansible Python API provides for executing a playbook?
  9. Which Ansible module can verify a Python installation connecting to the remote host and returns the response if the connection is successful with the host?
  10. What Python package and class provide lots of common code for handling returns and parsing arguments?
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