just say"read on using serial ports socketsthe main subject of this are the programmer' interface to network connections in python scripts as we've seenthey let us write scripts that converse with computers arbitrarily located on networkand they form the backbone of the internet and the web if you're looking for lower-level way to communicate with devices in generalthoughyou may also be interested in the topic of python' serial port interfaces this isn' quite related to internet scriptingbut it' similar enough in spirit and is discussed often enough on the net to merit few words here in briefscripts can use serial port interfaces to engage in low-level communication with things like micemodemsand wide variety of serial devices and hardware serial port interfaces are also used to communicate with devices connected over infrared ports ( hand-held computers and remote modemssuch interfaces let scripts tap into raw data streams and implement device protocols of their own other python tools such as the ctypes and struct modules may provide additional tools for creating and extracting the packed binary data these ports transfer at this writingthere are variety of ways to send and receive data over serial ports in python scripts notable among these options is an open source extension package known as pyserialwhich allows python scripts to control serial ports on both windows and linuxas well as bsd unixjython (for java)and ironpython (for net and monounfortunatelythere is not enough space to cover this or any other serial port option in any sort of detail in this text as alwayssee your favorite web search engine for upto-date details on this front simple python file server