Best way to open a socket in Python

Question

I want to open a TCP client socket in Python. Do I have to go through all the low-level BSD create-socket-handle / connect-socket stuff or is there a simpler one-line way?

Answer 1

Opening sockets in python is pretty simple. You really just need something like this:

import socket
sock = socket.socket()
sock.connect((address, port))

and then you can send() and recv() like any other socket