socket — Network Communication — PyMOTW 3
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The socket module exposes the low-level C API for communicating over a network using the BSD socket interface. It includes the socket class, for handling the actual data channel, and also includes functions for network-related tasks such as converting a server’s name to an address and formatting data to be sent across the network.
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