What this book covers

Chapter 1, Working with Python Scripting, introduces you to the Python language, object-oriented programming, data structures, a methodology for developing with Python, and development environments.

Chapter 2, System Programming Packages, teaches you about the main Python modules for system programming, looking at topics inclusing reading and writing files, threads, sockets, multithreading, and concurrency.

Chapter 3, Sockets Programming, gives you some basics on Python networking using the socket module. The socket module exposes all of the necessary pieces to quickly write TCP and UDP clients, as well as servers for writing low-level network applications.

Chapter 4, HTTP Programming, covers the HTTP protocol and the ...

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