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. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15851> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com