Best way to open a socket in Python

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

OK, this code worked

s = socket.socket()
s.connect((ip,port))
s.send("my request\r")
print s.recv(256)
s.close()

It was quite difficult to work that out from the Python socket module documentation. So I'll accept The.Anti.9's answer.

For developing portable network programs of any sort in Python, Twisted is quite useful. One of its benefits is providing a convenient layer above low-level socket APIs.