socket.close() Mark the socket closed. The underlying system resource (e.g. a file descriptor) is also closed when all file objects from makefile() are closed. Once that happens, all future operations on the socket object will fail. The remote end will receive no more data (after queued data is flushed). Sockets are automatically closed when they are garbage-collected, but it is recommended to close() them explicitly, or to use a with statement around them. Note close() releases the resourc

socket.bind(address) Bind the socket to address. The socket must not already be bound. (The format of address depends on the address family — see above.)

socket.accept() Accept a connection. The socket must be bound to an address and listening for connections. The return value is a pair (conn, address) where conn is a new socket object usable to send and receive data on the connection, and address is the address bound to the socket on the other end of the connection. The newly created socket is non-inheritable. Changed in version 3.4: The socket is now non-inheritable. Changed in version 3.5: If the system call is interrupted and the signa

socket.socket(family=AF_INET, type=SOCK_STREAM, proto=0, fileno=None) Create a new socket using the given address family, socket type and protocol number. The address family should be AF_INET (the default), AF_INET6, AF_UNIX, AF_CAN or AF_RDS. The socket type should be SOCK_STREAM (the default), SOCK_DGRAM, SOCK_RAW or perhaps one of the other SOCK_ constants. The protocol number is usually zero and may be omitted or in the case where the address family is AF_CAN the protocol should be one o

socket.sethostname(name) Set the machine’s hostname to name. This will raise an OSError if you don’t have enough rights. Availability: Unix. New in version 3.3.

socket.setdefaulttimeout(timeout) Set the default timeout in seconds (float) for new socket objects. When the socket module is first imported, the default is None. See settimeout() for possible values and their respective meanings.

socket.ntohs(x) Convert 16-bit positive integers from network to host byte order. On machines where the host byte order is the same as network byte order, this is a no-op; otherwise, it performs a 2-byte swap operation.

socket.ntohl(x) Convert 32-bit positive integers from network to host byte order. On machines where the host byte order is the same as network byte order, this is a no-op; otherwise, it performs a 4-byte swap operation.

socket.inet_pton(address_family, ip_string) Convert an IP address from its family-specific string format to a packed, binary format. inet_pton() is useful when a library or network protocol calls for an object of type struct in_addr (similar to inet_aton()) or struct in6_addr. Supported values for address_family are currently AF_INET and AF_INET6. If the IP address string ip_string is invalid, OSError will be raised. Note that exactly what is valid depends on both the value of address_family

socket.inet_ntop(address_family, packed_ip) Convert a packed IP address (a bytes-like object of some number of bytes) to its standard, family-specific string representation (for example, '7.10.0.5' or '5aef:2b::8'). inet_ntop() is useful when a library or network protocol returns an object of type struct in_addr (similar to inet_ntoa()) or struct in6_addr. Supported values for address_family are currently AF_INET and AF_INET6. If the bytes object packed_ip is not the correct length for the s