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I am quite new to Python and recently I wanted to send some files using Python. I quickly found out about sockets. But I searched for ready-made solution, because I thought client-server communication is such a common use, there must exist some kind of library (or maybe it's just because of my Java background and I got used to it:D). All answers about sending files I found mentioned sockets and that 'you have to write a protocol yourself'.

So here's my question: is there any library, ready protocol for client-server communication in Python (preferably 2.7)?

Answer 1

twisted is a very common one:

http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/

http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/13.0.0/core/examples/

Answer 2

If you use sockets, you can use ssh and then do scp (secured copies). If you are moving files back and forth, that would probably be the easiest way.

Answer 3

Maybe zeromq is something for you! There are also python bindings available. And good examples for implementing a Publisher-Subscriber pattern are also well documented.

Answer 4

is there any library, ready protocol for client-server communication

Generally speaking, yes: sockets (which you already found), twisted (as pointed in another answer) etc.

I wanted to send some files using Python

Use ftp! You can start an FTP server using pyftpdlib and use ftplib as client.