22. Internet Application Programming
This chapter describes modules related to Internet application protocols including HTTP, XML-RPC, FTP, and SMTP. Web programming topics such as CGI scripting are covered in Chapter 23, “Web Programming.” Modules related to dealing with common Internet-related data formats are covered in Chapter 24, “Internet Data Handling and Encoding.”
The organization of network-related library modules is one area where there are significant differences between Python 2 and 3. In the interest of looking forward, this chapter assumes the Python 3 library organization because it is more logical. However, the functionality provided by the library modules is virtually identical between Python versions as of this writing. When ...
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