Latest release 20191004: Small updates for changes to other modules.

Function isURL(U)

Test if an object U is an URL instance.

Class NetrcHTTPPasswordMgr

MRO: urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm, urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgr
A subclass of HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm that consults the .netrc file if no overriding credentials have been stored.

Function skip_errs(iterable)

Iterate over iterable and yield its values. If it raises URLError or HTTPError, report the error and skip the result.

Function strip_whitespace(s)

Strip whitespace characters from a string, per HTML 4.01 section 1.6 and appendix E.

Function URL(U, referer, **kw)

Factory function to return a _URL object from a URL string. Handing it a _URL object returns the object.

Release Log

Release 20191004: Small updates for changes to other modules.

Release 20160828: Use "install_requires" instead of "requires" in DISTINFO.

Release 20160827: Handle TimeoutError, reporting elapsed time. URL: present ._fetch as .GET. URL: add .resolve to resolve this URL against a base URL. URL: add .savepath and .unsavepath methods to generate nonconflicting save pathnames for URLs and the reverse. URL._fetch: record the post-redirection URL as final_url. New URLLimit class for specifying simple tests for URL acceptance. New walk(): method to walk website from starting URL, yielding URLs. URL.content_length property, returns int or None if header missing. New URL.normalised method to return URL with . and .. processed in the path. new URL.exists test function. Assorted bugfixes and improvements.

Release 20150116: Initial PyPI release.