is the python library that adds socket support available anywhere besides on digi gateways?

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I would like to use the socket libraries on my linux server.

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Hi,

There are many Python programming guides all around the web. Here is link to one unix socket tutorial. I hope its helpful to you.

Your text to link here…

Juha

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Hi,

There are many Python programming guides all around the web. Here is link to one unix socket tutorial. I hope its helpful to you.

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_networking.htm

Juha

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I was referring specifically to this http://www.digi.com/wiki/developer/index.php/XBee_Extensions_to_the_Python_socket_API

Is that specific socket functionality available for download anywhere?

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Network programming in windows is possible with sockets. A socket is like a handle to a file. Socket programming resembles the file IO as does the Serial Communication. You can use sockets programming to have two applications communicate with each other. The application are typically on the different computers but they can be on same computer. For the two applications to talk to each either on the same or different computers using sockets one application is generally a server that keeps listening to the incoming requests and the other application acts as a client and makes the connection to the server application. From my opinion the simplest way you can learn the socket programming from…

http://net-informations.com/python/net/socket.htm

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https://github.com/jordanh/cp4pc

This emulates the Connect Port programming interface. I’ve used it on a Windows PC to run python scripts that would normally only run on a Connect Port, including the xbee/zigbee socket api. I expect it would be OK under Linux but haven’t tested that out yet.

It’s kind of old but still works for me.