URL related utility functions and classes.

• Cameron Simpson cs@cskk.id.au 26dec2011

Latest release 20231129:

• Drop Python 2 support.
• No longer use cs.xml, which is going away.
• Make _URL type public as URL with a new promote() method, drop URL factory function, update URL constructors throughout.
• URL.init: make parameters keyword only.

Class NetrcHTTPPasswordMgr(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.

Class URL(builtins.str, cs.deco.Promotable)

Utility class to do simple stuff to URLs, subclasses str.

Release Log

Release 20231129:

• Drop Python 2 support.
• No longer use cs.xml, which is going away.
• Make _URL type public as URL with a new promote() method, drop URL factory function, update URL constructors throughout.
• URL.init: make parameters keyword only.

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.