What are the Python networking alternatives for this example?

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I have an environment with up to 10 workstations and one server all sitting in the same physical location. They will be running some proprietary Python scripts that will need to talk to each other:

server script on server with client scripts on workstations;
server script on workstation with client scripts on other workstations;
server script on workstation with client script on same workstation.

So all in all, as far as the actual communication goes, its very nature is more towards the informal on-the-fly kind rather than a fixed client/server relationship.

The data itself will be of a few different sorts, ranked in order of bandwidth demands:

realtime-ish datafeed (it can be made less frequent if needed) with no real demands of high quality transfer;
100% realtime and with high demands of transfer integrity;
messages with once every minute or so frequency.

The transmitted data units are all small in size, counted in kilobytes at most.

As this is my first time using Python's networking capabilities, what are the different ways of doing this? I did some research myself but I was taken aback by the plethora of networking/messaging packages in the Python universe, so I thought I'd rather ask the community for some guidance.

Please list pros and cons to each alternative. If I'd rank the 'wish list' it'd be something like this:

has to offer high as well as low data integrity modes;
easy to deploy/develop/maintain;
high performance but not too low-level;
small resource footprint;
plays well with Qt/PySide;
platform independent.

What are the Python networking alternatives for this example?

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