Introduction to Network Programming in Python

This tutorial will give an introduction to sockets in Python and how to use the socket module to build HTTP servers and clients in Python. It will also cover Tornado, a Python networking library which is ideal for long polling, WebSockets, and other applications that require a long-lived connection to each user. What Are Sockets? A socket is a link between two applications that can communicate with one another (either locally on a single machine or remotely between two machines in separate loc