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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-10-06 11:49:34 (GMT)
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Closes #11710: create "landing pages" (/library/package.html) for those packages that have no documented content themselves, e.g. "urllib" or "http".
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+:mod:`urllib` --- URL handling modules
+======================================
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+``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