newsgroup lib

[Jesper Olsen]

Is there a python module for accessing newsgroup articles?

Something similar to urllib for downloading web pages...

Cheers
Jesper

 

[deelan]

Is there a python module for accessing newsgroup articles?

Something similar to urllib for downloading web pages...

nttplib?
see: <http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-nntplib.html>

 

[Gerrit Holl]

Is there a python module for accessing newsgroup articles?

You're looking for nntplib

http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-nntplib.html

For example,

s = NNTP('news.cwi.nl')
resp, count, first, last, name = s.group('comp.lang.python')
print 'Group', name, 'has', count, 'articles, range', first, 'to',
last Group comp.lang.python has 59 articles, range 3742 to 3803
resp, subs = s.xhdr('subject', first + '-' + last)
for id, sub in subs[-10:]: print id, sub

....
3792 Re: Removing elements from a list while iterating...
3793 Re: Who likes Info files?
3794 Emacs and doc strings
3795 a few questions about the Mac implementation
3796 Re: executable python scripts
3797 Re: executable python scripts
3798 Re: a few questions about the Mac implementation
3799 Re: PROPOSAL: A Generic Python Object Interface for Python C
Modules
3802 Re: executable python scripts
3803 Re: \POSIX{} wait and SIGCHLD'205 news.cwi.nl closing connection. Goodbye.'

Gerrit.

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[Jesper Olsen]

You're looking for nntplib

http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-nntplib.html

Indeed so.
Thanks Gerrit & deelan

Jesper