| :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 |