[Taking catalog-sig and python-list out of CC.] John, please don't crosspost. catalog-sig in particular is off-topic of your question. When we crosspost, we add noise to those lists and frustrate members of the community. It's generally a bad thing to do. See:
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and: http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html for more details about this. Please make sure your replies are only going to a single mailing list unless you really have overriding reasons for crossposting. In fact, you've been called on this behavior back in August: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2005-August/0000692.html Ian Bicking there was fairly civil, but you need to pick up on the clue: he didn't give you much help besides saying, in effect: you're posting on the wrong mailing list, and he and others on catalog-sig won't even bother responding to you if you ignore his request for topicality. It look like you didn't really hear what he said, so let me say it explicitely: crossposting is considered inconsiderate behavior. If you continue to do so, people will respond in kind by ignoring your questions, and that will be bad. So avoid getting people annoyed: don't crosspost. Thanks. Anyway, to your question. > I don't know whether or not this is the same for Python, but could > someone please tell me what information of the computer you want to > connect with the you actually need for a connection? Computers on the internet all have an IP address in the form of dotted numbers. For example, 82.94.237.218 is an example of an IP address. Many computers on the Internet can register to get a nice, mnemonic name, like: python.org > In other words (or plain english), what information do I need to get a > connection with another computer (IP address, name, IP name)? Also, > could you tell me how to find it on a computer? Either IP address or name should be sufficient. For example, here's a little snippet of code that shows how we might contact the web server on Python.org. (Note that in real life, we'd probably use the 'urllib' library instead.): ###### >>> import socket >>> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) >>> s.connect(("python.org", 80)) >>> s.send("GET /\n") 6 >>> s.recv(20) '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLI' ###### Here, we're able to pass 'python.org', which the network will use to find the Python.org webserver. We also tell the system to talk to port 80; a single computer has a bunch of numeric ports, each which is dedicated to a job. Port 80 is reserved for web serving. Let me see if I can pull some resources for you... Ok, there's a tutorial on low-level networking from Gordon McMillan's "Socket Programming HOWTO": http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/sockets You may also want to look at high-level modules like Twisted, which provide some extra support for network programming: http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/twisted http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/index.html If you are looking for more introductory information on network programming, please feel free to ask, and I'm sure on of us can find something useful for you. Good luck. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor