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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook Over 100 recipes to fully leverage the features of the standard library in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830829
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alessandro Molina Alessandro Molina
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Containers and Data Structures 2. Text Management FREE CHAPTER 3. Command Line 4. Filesystem and Directories 5. Date and Time 6. Read/Write Data 7. Algorithms 8. Cryptography 9. Concurrency 10. Networking 11. Web Development 12. Multimedia 13. Graphical User Interfaces 14. Development Tools 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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FTP is the most widely-used solution to save and retrieve files from a remote server. It has been around for decades and it's a fairly easy protocol to use that can deliver good performance as it provides minimal overhead over transferred content, while supporting powerful features, such as transfer recovery.

Often, software needs to receive files automatically uploaded by other software; FTP has been frequently used as a robust solution in these scenarios over the years. Whether your software is the one in need of uploading the content or the one that has to receive it, the Python standard library has support for FTP built-in so we can rely on ftplib to use the FTP protocol.

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ftplib is a powerful foundation...

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