1 :mod:`urllib` --- URL handling modules 2 ====================================== 3 4 .. module:: urllib 5 6 **Source code:** :source:`Lib/urllib/` 7 8 -------------- 9 10 ``urllib`` is a package that collects several modules for working with URLs: 11 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 16
