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urllib — URL handling modules#

Source code: Lib/urllib/

urllib is a package that collects several modules for working with URLs:

  • urllib.request for opening and reading URLs

  • urllib.error containing the exceptions raised by urllib.request

  • urllib.parse for parsing URLs

  • urllib.robotparser for parsing robots.txt files

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