Getting Started With Raspberry Pi, 4th Edition

10/Python and

the Internet

Python has a very active community of de-

velopers who often share their work in the

form of open-source libraries that simpli-

fy complex tasks.Some of these libraries

make it relatively easy for us to connect our

projects to the internet to do things like get-

ting data about the weather, send an email

or text message, follow trends on Twitter,

or act as a webserver.

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 by

showing you how to fetch data from the internet and then move

into how you can create your own Raspberry Pi-based webserver.

Download Data from a Web Server

When you type an address into your web bro ...