19.8. Related Modules
In Table 19-7, we present a list of modules which you may find useful for Web and Internet development.
The parsing modules deal with recognizing documents in specific formats.
You can write POP- or IMAP-compliant mail clients using the corresponding protocol modules.
Python has plenty of modules to support most kinds of binary file encoding for e-mail and other MIME-oriented applications.
You can create clients for common Internet protocols like HTTP, FTP, Telnet, and NNTP with the appropriate modules. Be aware that urllib provides a high-level interface to protocols supported by your browser such as HTTP and FTP, so use of the lower-level protocol modules only makes sense when you cannot get all you want from urllib.
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