This module defines the class NNTP which implements the client side of the NNTP protocol. It can be used to implement a news reader or poster, or automated news processors. For more information on NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol), see Internet RFC 977.
Here are two small examples of how it can be used. To list some statistics about a newsgroup and print the subjects of the last 10 articles:
>>> 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
>>> s.quit()
'205 news.cwi.nl closing connection. Goodbye.'
To post an article from a file (this assumes that the article has valid headers):
>>> s = NNTP('news.cwi.nl')
>>> f = open('/tmp/article')
>>> s.post(f)
'240 Article posted successfully.'
>>> s.quit()
'205 news.cwi.nl closing connection. Goodbye.'
The module itself defines the following items:
| host[, port [, user[, password [, readermode]]]]) |
NNTPPermanentErrors, you might need to set
readermode. readermode defaults to None.
| ) |
Exception, this is the base
class for all exceptions raised by the nntplib module.
| ) |
error_reply
is equivalent to this class.
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error_temp is equivalent to this class.
| ) |
error_perm is equivalent to this class.
| ) |
error_proto is equivalent to this
class.
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error_data is
equivalent to this class.