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author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1995-02-16 16:29:46 (GMT) |
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committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1995-02-16 16:29:46 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libwww.tex b/Doc/lib/libwww.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5cd4c05 --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/lib/libwww.tex @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +\chapter{WORLD-WIDE WEB EXTENSIONS} +\index{WWW} +\indexii{World-Wide}{Web} + +The modules described in this chapter provide various services to +World-Wide Web (WWW) clients and/or services, and a few modules +related to news and email. They are all implemented in Python. Some +of these modules require the presence of the system-dependent module +\code{sockets}, which is currently only fully supported on Unix and +Windows NT. Here is an overview: + +\begin{description} + +\item[urllib] +--- Open an arbitrary object given by URL (requires sockets). + +\item[httplib] +--- HTTP protocol client (requires sockets). + +\item[ftplib] +--- FTP protocol client (requires sockets). + +\item[gopherlib] +--- Gopher protocol client (requires sockets). + +\item[nntplib] +--- NNTP protocol client (requires sockets). + +\item[urlparse] +--- Parse a URL string into a tuple (addressing scheme identifier, network +location, path, parameters, query string, fragment identifier). + +\item[htmllib] +--- A (slow) parser for HTML files. + +\item[sgmllib] +--- Only as much of an SGML parser as needed to parse HTML. + +\item[rfc822] +--- Parse RFC-822 style mail headers. + +\item[mimetools] +--- Tools for parsing MIME style message bodies. + +\end{description} |