Just out of curiousity, would wrapping some SDL networking API be a good way to go? Since that's what pygame does for most other things?
is the SDL_net library good? (never looked at it myself)
http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net/
SDL_Net will be investigated. The python select and socket modules are also being looked at. The reasons for any decision to use a base library(which this API will be built on), will be documented and discussed.
-Sw.