What client / server protocols does python support out of the box?

Question

Without installing third-party libraries, what client / server protocols does Python support out of the box?

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systempuntoout Apr 13 10 at 7:29

1 answer

cryo · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-13T07:38:11+0000

Basic web protocols :
- Download from http, ftp and file: from urllib
  
  , but note that in python 3 that has urllib.urlopen
  
  moved to urllib2.urlopen
  
  and is deprecated from python 2.6
- Download from https and http with basic proxy and authentication support using urllib2
- http with httplib
  
  both server modules BaseHTTPServer
  
  , SimpleHTTPServer
  
  and CGIHTTPServer
  
  , but note that servers have been moved to http.server
  
  in python 3
- Upload / download ftp with ftplib
- telnet with telnetlib
Mail protocols :
- imap with imaplib
- pop3 with poplib
- smtp with smtplib
  
  andsmtpd
XML-RPC :
- XML RPC client with xmlrpclib
  
  both server modules SimpleXMLRPCServer
  
  and DocXMLRPCServer
  
  , but servers have been moved to xmlrpc.server
  
  in python 3
News reading protocols :
- NNTP with nntplib