:mod:`urllib` --- URL handling modules
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.. module:: urllib

**Source code:** :source:`Lib/urllib/`

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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