Chapter 10. Python and the Internet
Python has a very active community of developers who often share their work in the form of open source libraries that simplify complex tasks. Some of these libraries make it relatively easy for us to connect our projects to the Internet to do things like get data about the weather, send an email or text message, follow trends on Twitter, or act as a web server.
In this chapter, we’re going to take a look at a few ways to create Internet-connected projects with the Raspberry Pi. We’ll start off by showing you how to fetch data from the Internet and then move into how you can create your own Raspberry Pi–based web server.
Download Data from a Web Server
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