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Bjorn Pettersen bjorn.pettersen at comcast.net
Fri Dec 26 05:13:44 EST 2003 
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"trainee" <kamuelaf at verizon.net> wrote in news:S6LGb.5854$UB3.2232
@nwrddc03.gnilink.net:

> Do you think you could recommend a book on Python that includes sockets?

Starting on the web first (it's free :-) the socket howto is probably your 
best bet:

  http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/sockets/    

You can also look at asynchronous sockets at:

  http://squirl.nightmare.com/medusa/async_sockets.html

When it comes to books, most of them seem to have decent chapters on it. I 
like "(the eff-bot guide to) The Standard Python Library", but my copy is 
severely dated :-)  I think he finally published it as a "real" book, but I 
haven't seen a recent copy...

"Python Programming on Win32" has a short section on sockets that might be 
enough, and if you're going to work on win32 systems I'd definitely 
recommend it.

The Python Cookbook has a couple of receipes on sockets (and everything 
else ;-) You can get the receipes on the web at 
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/

Finally, I'd be very surprised if "Python in a Nutshell" by Alex Martelli 
didn't have the best coverage of them all, however that book is still on my  
list so I'll have to let someone else comment on it...

-- bjorn
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