Networking and Interprocess Communication

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Networking and Interprocess Communication

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The modules described in this chapter provide mechanisms for networking and inter-processes communication.

Some modules only work for two processes that are on the same machine, e.g. :mod:signal and :mod:mmap. Other modules support networking protocols that two or more processes can use to communicate across machines.

The list of modules described in this chapter is:

.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1

asyncio.rst socket.rst ssl.rst select.rst selectors.rst asyncore.rst asynchat.rst signal.rst mmap.rst