By Toby Donaldson
ISBN-10: 0321585445
ISBN-13: 9780321585448
Python is a remarkably strong dynamic programming language that's utilized in a wide selection of program domain names corresponding to internet, database entry, laptop GUIs, video game and software program improvement, and community programming. lovers of Python use the word "batteries included" to explain the traditional library, which covers every little thing from asynchronous processing to zip documents. The language itself is a versatile powerhouse which may deal with essentially any program area. This task-based instructional is for college kids without programming adventure in addition to these programmers who've a few adventure with the programming language and now are looking to take their abilities to the following point. The booklet walks a reader via the entire basics after which strikes directly to extra complicated issues. It's a whole end-to-end instructional and reference.
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This means that large packets are more likely to be dropped, since if any one of their pieces fails to make its way to the destination, then the whole packet can never be reassembled and delivered to the listening operating system. Except for the higher chance of failure, this process of fragmenting large UDP packets so that they will fit on the wire should be invisible to your application. There are three ways, however, in which it might be relevant. u If you are thinking about efficiency, you might want to limit your protocol to small packets to make retransmission less likely and to limit how long it takes the remote IP stack to reassemble your UDP packet and give it to the waiting application.
If you are writing a UDP client that lives a long time, think about having it remember how long the last few requests have taken to complete so that it can delay its first retry until the server has had enough time to reply. When you run the Listing 2-2 client,, give it the hostname of the other machine on which you are running the server script, as shown previously. Sometimes, this client will get lucky and get an immediate reply. 1 seconds for a reply The server says 'Your data was 23 bytes long' 26 CHAPTER 2 N UDP However, often it will find that one or more of its requests never results in replies, and it will have to retry.
First, the TCP connect() call—as I discussed a moment ago—is not the innocuous bit of local socket configuration that it is in the case of UDP, where it merely sets a default remote address to be used with any subsequent send() or recv() calls. Here, connect() is a real live network operation that kicks off the three-way handshake between the client and server machine so that they are ready to communicate. This means that connect() can fail, as you can verify quite easily by executing the client when the server is not running.