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Mastering Python Networking - Fourth Edition

By : Eric Chou
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Mastering Python Networking - Fourth Edition

By: Eric Chou

Overview of this book

Networks in your infrastructure set the foundation for how your application can be deployed, maintained, and serviced. Python is the ideal language for network engineers to explore tools that were previously available to systems engineers and application developers. In Mastering Python Networking, Fourth edition, you'll embark on a Python-based journey to transition from a traditional network engineer to a network developer ready for the next generation of networks. This new edition is completely revised and updated to work with the latest Python features and DevOps frameworks. In addition to new chapters on introducing Docker containers and Python 3 Async IO for network engineers, each chapter is updated with the latest libraries with working examples to ensure compatibility and understanding of the concepts. Starting with a basic overview of Python, the book teaches you how it can interact with both legacy and API-enabled network devices. You will learn to leverage high-level Python packages and frameworks to perform network automation tasks, monitoring, management, and enhanced network security, followed by AWS and Azure cloud networking. You will use Git for code management, GitLab for continuous integration, and Python-based testing tools to verify your network.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Comparing Python web frameworks

Python is known for its great many web frameworks. There is a running joke in the Python community about whether you can ever work as a full-time Python developer without working with any Python web frameworks. There are several Python web developer conferences, including DjangoCon US (https://djangocon.us/), DjangoCon EU (https://djangocon.eu/), FlaskCon (https://flaskcon.com/), Python Web Conference (https://pythonwebconf.com/), and many local meetups. Each of the conferences attracts hundreds of attendees every year. Did I mention Python has a thriving web development community?

If you sort the Python web frameworks on: https://hotframeworks.com/languages/python, you can see that there is no shortage of choices when it comes to Python and web frameworks:

Figure 1: Python web framework rankings (source: https://hotframeworks.com/languages/python)

In the most recent 2021 Python Developer Survey, Flask slightly edged Django as the most popular web framework...