Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

Sockets

In this section, we are going to learn about sockets. We are going to use Python's socket module. Sockets are endpoints for communication between machines, whether locally or across the internet. The socket module has a socket class, which is used to handle the data channel. It also has functions for network-related tasks. To use the functionality of the socket module, we first need to import the socket module.

Let's see how to create a socket. The socket class has a socket function, with two arguments: address_family and socket type.

The following is the syntax:

            import socket            s = socket.socket(address_family, socket type)

address_family controls the OSI network layer protocol.

socket type controls the transport layer protocol. ...