The socket Python module exposes low-level C APIs for communication over a network using the BSD (short for Berkeley Software Distribution) socket interface.

This module includes the Socket class, which includes the main methods for managing the following tasks:

• socket ([family [, type [, protocol]]]): Builds a socket using the following as arguments:
  • The family address, which can be AF_INET (default), AF_INET6, or AF_UNIX
  • The type socket, which can be SOCK_STREAM (default), SOCK_DGRAM, or perhaps one of the other "SOCK_" constants
  • The protocol number (that is usually zero)
• gethostname(): Returns the current IP address of the machine.
• accept (): Returns the following pair of values (conn and address), where conn is a socket type object (to send/receive data on the connection), while address is the address connected to the socket on the other end of the connection.
• bind (address): Associates the socket with the address server.

• close (): Provides the option to clean up the connection once communication with the client is finished. The sockets are closed and collected by the garbage collector. 
• connect (address): Connects a remote socket to an address. The address format depends on the family address.