This book is about using Python to get the socket program done on Windows as well as LINUX. I hope by now you have heard of Python, the exciting object-oriented scripting language that is rapidly entering the programming mainstream. Although Python is perhaps better known on the Unix platform, it offers a superb degree of integration with the Windows environment. This book can thus be considered the definitive reference to date for Python on the Windows platform.

This is intended to be a practical book focused on several examples of socket programs. It doesn't aim to teach Python programming, although i do provide a brief tutorial. Instead, it aims to cover socket programming. I also include some lab assignments to get more familiarize with socket programming.