Best way to open a socket in Python
Opening sockets in python is pretty simple. You really just need something like this:
import socketsock = socket.socket()sock.connect((address, port))and then you can send() and recv() like any other socket
OK, this code worked
s = socket.socket()s.connect((ip,port))s.send("my request\r")print s.recv(256)s.close()It was quite difficult to work that out from the Python socket module documentation. So I'll accept The.Anti.9's answer.
For developing portable network programs of any sort in Python, Twisted is quite useful. One of its benefits is providing a convenient layer above low-level socket APIs.