Sockets

Introduction

Many programming languages use sockets to communicate across processes or between devices. This topic explains proper usage the the sockets module in Python to facilitate sending and receiving data over common networking protocols.

Parameters

Parameter | Description | —— | —— | socket.AF_UNIX | UNIX Socket | socket.AF_INET | IPv4 | socket.AF_INET6 | IPv6 | socket.SOCK_STREAM | TCP | socket.SOCK_DGRAM | UDP |