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Python is one of the most portable, convenient, and powerful programming languages available today. It's also freely distributed as source code that can be modified and redistributed in commercial products. Every programmer deserves to enjoy Python, and Internet Programming with Python shows you the way. Watters, van Rossum (the primary author of Python), and James C. Ahlstrom demonstrate methods of programming in Python, with particular emphasis on Internet-related applications. But Python is not only for Internet applications - companies large and small, hobbyists and highly skilled professional programmers from around the world use Python in all sorts of domains. Topics covered include basic and advanced features of the language, the generation of HTML documents using Python, CGI programming, the implementation of protocols using sockets, extending the interpreter with external interfaces and new functionality, and the embedding of the interpreter as a scripting/extension language in another application.