urllib module in Python
Let's talk about urlib module and its function.
The urllib module in Python 3 is a collection of modules that we can use for working with URLs.
If you are coming from a Python 2
background you will note that in Python 2 you had urllib and urllib2.
These are now a part of the urllib package in Python 3. The current
version of urllib is made up of the following modules:
urllib.requesturllib.errorurllib.parseurllib.robotparser
We will be covering each part individually except for urllib.error.
The official documentation actually recommends that you might want to
check out the 3rd party library, requests, for a higher-level HTTP
client interface. However, we believe that it can be useful to know how
to open URLs and interact with them without using a 3rd party and it may
also help you appreciate why the requests package is so popular.
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