The socketserver module (formerly capitalized as SocketServer in Python 2) is a framework in the Python standard library designed to simplify the task of writing network servers. It abstracts away much of the boilerplate code required to set up sockets, bind to addresses, listen for incoming connections, and handle requests.

At its core, socketserver decouples the server-level transport mechanism (how connections are accepted and managed) from the application-level logic (how individual requests are processed).