Introduction to Sockets

• Network programming is a major use of Python
• The Python Standard Library has wide support for network protocols, data encoding/decoding, and other things you need to make it work
• Writing network programs in Python tends to be substantially easier than in C/C++
• We will only cover modules supported by the Python standard library

• These come with Python by default

• Keep in mind, much more functionality can be found in third-party modules

• There will be links to notable third-party libraries and resources as appropriate