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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. Which function from the json package allows you to transform a dictionary-type object as the first parameter into a text string in JSON format?
  2. Which function from the json package transforms a character string that contains information in JSON format and transforms it into a dictionary Python-type object?
  3. Which authentication mechanism uses Twitter, where credentials are composed of two main elements, consumer and access?
  4. Which library inside the requests module can handle most of the complexity of the OAuth protocol for us?
  5. Which information do we need to provide at the credentials level to connect with the Twitter API from Python?
  6. Which library can we use from Python to connect with the Twitter API and process data in real time using the streaming API?
  7. Which xml package is part of the Python standard library and contains in turn a series of packages and modules specializing...