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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
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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

Designing Applications on the Web

In this chapter, you will learn how to implement a web application using the Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI). You will be introduced to existing web application frameworks and how to start working with dynamic web programming. We will introduce the Flask microframework that's written in Python, which is designed to facilitate the development of web applications under the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. Finally, we will review how to work with HTTP requests in Flask and how to interact with databases through SQLAlchemy.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Writing a web application with WSGI
  • A discussion of existing web application frameworks (Django, Flask, Plone)
  • The MVC pattern and dynamic web programming with Python
  • Creating RESTful web applications and working with Flask and HTTP requests
  • Interacting with Flask...