socket.socket

import socket

def netcat(hostname, port, content):
  s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
  s.connect((hostname, port))
  s.sendall(content)
  s.shutdown(socket.SHUT_WR)
  while 1:
      data = s.recv(1024)
      if data == "":
          break
      print "Received:", repr(data)
  print "Connection closed."
  s.close()