14 Python programs as network clients

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What you will learn

In this chapter, you’ll discover how to create Python programs that interact with the Internet and the World Wide Web. You’ll learn the fundamentals of computer networking and how to create a program that can grab information from a web server on the Internet. You’ll also learn about the standards used to transfer data between programs.

Computer networking

Consume the web from Python

What you have learned

Computer networking

Before we look at how Python programs use network connections, we need to learn a little bit about networks. This is not a detailed description, but it should give ...

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