karl added the comment:

Mark,

The code is using urllib for demonstrating the issue with wikipedia and other 
sites which are blocking python-urllib user agents because it is used by many 
spam harvesters.

The proposal is about giving a possibility in robotparser lib to add a feature 
for setting up the user-agent.

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