# Python Programming/Networks

## Sockets

Python can also communicate via sockets.

### Connecting to a server

This simple Python program will fetch a 4096 byte HTTP response from
Google:

``` python
import socket, sys
sock = socket.socket ( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
sock.connect ( ( "google.com", 80 ) )

sock.send('GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n')
sock.send('User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (wikibooks test)\r\n\r\n')
print(sock.recv(4096))
```

## High-level interfaces

Most Python developers will prefer to use a high-level interface over
using sockets, such as Twisted and
urllib2.

