Best way to open a socket in Python

Question

I want to open a TCP client socket in Python. Do I have to go through all the low-level BSD create-socket-handle / connect-socket stuff or is there a simpler one-line way?

Answer 1

Opening sockets in python is pretty simple. You really just need something like this:

import socket sock = socket.socket() sock.connect((address, port)) 

and then you can send() and recv() like any other socket

Answer 2

OK, this code worked

s = socket.socket() s.connect((ip,port)) s.send("my request\r") print s.recv(256) s.close() 

It was quite difficult to work that out from the Python socket module documentation. So I'll accept The.Anti.9's answer.