To get the most out of this book

You will need to install a Python distribution on your local machine, which should have at least 4 GB of memory. Also, you will need Python version 3.10, which you can install on your system globally or use a virtual environment for testing the scripts with this version.

Download the example code files

The code bundle for the book is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Python-for-Security-and-Networking. We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Code in Action

Code in Action videos for this book can be viewed at (https://packt.link/Playlist_CodeinAction).

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://packt.link/t85UI.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “In this way, the module can be installed either with the pip install pipreqs command or through the GitHub code repository using the python setup.py install command.”

A block of code is set as follows:

import my_module
def main():
    my_module.test()
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ pip -r requirements.txt

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. For example: “Select System info from the Administration panel.”