Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

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Python provides access to enough general-purpose networking functionality that services can be written from scratch to read and respond to pretty much any sort of network traffic desired. The web- and queue-based service types are specific applications of that functionality, under the hood, supported to varying degrees by additional libraries that address some of the needs specific to each, as follows:

• Web services will probably make at least some use of the functionality provided by the http.server, or socket modules; the http.server.HTTPServer or socketserver.TCPServer classes are the most likely starting points, but http.server.ThreadingHTTPServer is also potentially viable.
• Queue-based services may have libraries ...