[Tutor] socket / over network

[Nathan McBride]

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Alan Gauld wrote:
> "Nathan McBride" <nomb85 at comcast.net> wrote
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> Hi Nathan,
>
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>> I'm pretty tired of the lame backup solution we have at work.
>> Could anyone point me to a (more or less newbieish) example of how
>> to
>> have python open a socket on one box and get data from it, then have
>> another
>> box write to it over the network?
>
> For a very simple example of using a socket you could try the
> Network Programming topic in my tutorial.
>
> There is also a HowTo or Topic guide on the Python web site
> that gives a more detailed example.
>
> That having been said, backups are usually best done using
> OS tools or if you must roll your own then using ftp or similar
> as a file transfer mechanism rather than trying to send a
> bytestream over a socket. ftp can handle broken connections
> etc more easily. Detecting and fixing errors over a socket
> stream is non trivial and for backups is pretty much essential!!
>
Going off of wha tyou said, if I choose to use ftp, is there a way i
could do everything from within python including the server to get the
files?  Is there like a ftp module for python to help in the passing of
the files between the computers?

Thanks,

Nate
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