SOCKET PROGRAMMING TCP       SOCKET PROGRAMMING TCP    Python provides two levels of access to network services. At a low level, you can access the basic socket support in the underlying operating system, which allows you to implement clients and servers for both connection-oriented and connectionless protocols.   Python also has libraries that provide higher-level access to specific application-level network protocols, such as FTP, HTTP, and so on.   What is Sockets?   Sockets are the endpoints of a bidirectional communications channel. Sockets may communicate within a process, between processes on the same machine, or between processes on different continents.   Sockets may be implemented over a number of different channel types: Unix domain sockets, TCP, UDP, and so on. The socket library provides specific classes for handling the common transports as well as a generic interface for handling the rest.   Sockets have their own vocabulary −   Term & Description  1...