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Georg Brandlfe7b00f2012-10-06 13:49:34 +02001:mod:`urllib` --- URL handling modules
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Serhiy Storchaka5e1c0532013-10-13 20:06:50 +03004.. module:: urllib
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Terry Jan Reedyfa089b92016-06-11 15:02:54 -04006**Source code:** :source:`Lib/urllib/`
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Georg Brandlfe7b00f2012-10-06 13:49:34 +020010``urllib`` is a package that collects several modules for working with URLs:
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12* :mod:`urllib.request` for opening and reading URLs
13* :mod:`urllib.error` containing the exceptions raised by :mod:`urllib.request`
14* :mod:`urllib.parse` for parsing URLs
15* :mod:`urllib.robotparser` for parsing ``robots.txt`` files