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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 main advantage of using aiohttp regarding the requests module for HTTP requests?
  2. What are the classes from the concurrent.futures package that use the executor abstract base class?
  3. What is the most important concept within asyncio that allows us to write asynchronous code using either callbacks or coroutines?
  4. Which class from asyncio is a subclass of asyncio.Future and allows you to encapsulate and manage coroutines?
  5. Which keyword from asyncio tells the Python interpreter that the succeeding expression is going to take some time to evaluate so that it can spend that time on other tasks?
  6. Which Tornado class is responsible for defining the URIs that are available for the web server?
  7. Which Tornado class can perform HTTP requests asynchronously?
  8. Which method, when creating a protocol with Twisted, will be called for each portion of data that has been received...