1:mod:`urllib` --- URL handling modules
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4.. module:: urllib
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6**Source code:** :source:`Lib/urllib/`
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10``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
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