# 1722 - Add a note on urllib helper functions like splittype, splithost etc.
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
index 2008bdf..c7d200d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
@@ -280,6 +280,13 @@
find it, looks for proxy information from Mac OSX System Configuration for
Mac OS X and Windows Systems Registry for Windows.
+.. note::
+ urllib also exposes certain utility functions like splittype, splithost and
+ others parsing url into various components. But it is recommended to use
+ :mod:`urlparse` for parsing urls than using these functions directly.
+ Python 3 does not expose these helper functions from :mod:`urllib.parse`
+ module.
+
URL Opener objects
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