21.5. urllib — URL handling modules

Source code: Lib/urllib/ [https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.5/Lib/urllib/]

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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