Socket Programming in Python

[Josiah Carlson]

 > from socket import *

is not required.  In fact, that leads to namespace pollution that may 
cause problems for users later.

Most socket applications that I've seen tend to use 'import socket', 
then refer to all the various constants by socket.AF_INET and such.

Another thing worth mentioning is that while UDP datagrams are useful 
when you don't care about your data, TCP streams tend to do what people 
expect (no information gets re-arranged, etc.).

  - Josiah