| \section{Standard Module \sectcode{nntplib}} |
| \stmodindex{nntplib} |
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| \renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(in module nntplib)} |
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| This module defines the class \code{NNTP} which implements the client |
| side of the NNTP protocol. It can be used to implement a news reader |
| or poster, or automated news processors. For more information on NNTP |
| (Network News Transfer Protocol), see Internet RFC 977. |
| |
| Due to time constraints, the documentation for this module could not |
| be completed for this release of the Python documentation. Here are |
| two small examples of how it can be used. |
| |
| To list some statistics about a newsgroup and print the subjects of |
| the last 10 articles: |
| |
| \begin{verbatim} |
| >>> s = NNTP('news.cwi.nl') |
| >>> resp, count, first, last, name = s.group('comp.lang.python') |
| >>> print 'Group', name, 'has', count, 'articles, range', first, 'to', last |
| Group comp.lang.python has 59 articles, range 3742 to 3803 |
| >>> resp, subs = s.xhdr('subject', first + '-' + last) |
| >>> for id, sub in subs[-10:]: print id, sub |
| ... |
| 3792 Re: Removing elements from a list while iterating... |
| 3793 Re: Who likes Info files? |
| 3794 Emacs and doc strings |
| 3795 a few questions about the Mac implementation |
| 3796 Re: executable python scripts |
| 3797 Re: executable python scripts |
| 3798 Re: a few questions about the Mac implementation |
| 3799 Re: PROPOSAL: A Generic Python Object Interface for Python C Modules |
| 3802 Re: executable python scripts |
| 3803 Re: POSIX wait and SIGCHLD |
| >>> s.quit() |
| '205 news.cwi.nl closing connection. Goodbye.' |
| >>> |
| \end{verbatim} |
| |
| To post an article from a file (this assumes that the article has |
| valid headers): |
| |
| \begin{verbatim} |
| >>> s = NNTP('news.cwi.nl') |
| >>> f = open('/tmp/article') |
| >>> s.post(f) |
| '240 Article posted successfully.' |
| >>> s.quit() |
| '205 news.cwi.nl closing connection. Goodbye.' |
| >>> |
| \end{verbatim} |