:mod:urllib --- URL handling modules

.. module:: urllib

Source code: :source:Lib/urllib/

---

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

• :mod:urllib.request for opening and reading URLs
• :mod:urllib.error containing the exceptions raised by :mod:urllib.request
• :mod:urllib.parse for parsing URLs
• :mod:urllib.robotparser for parsing robots.txt files