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nntplib

removed modules

Client for NNTP, the Usenet newsgroup protocol. Removed in Python 3.13 — use the pynntp package and parse articles with email.

Syntax

import nntplib  # до 3.13

nntplib.NNTP('news.example.com') connected to a news server: group() selected a group, over() listed articles, article() fetched one, post() published. PEP 594 dropped it: Usenet is nearly dead and the module's tests relied on a live server that disappeared. There is no stdlib replacement for the protocol: use pynntp or standard-nntplib, which restores the old module. An NNTP article is a plain RFC 5322 message, so parse it with the email package: email.message_from_bytes(raw, policy=email.policy.default) gives headers by key and the body via get_content().

Examples

# Python 3.13+
try:
    import nntplib
except ModuleNotFoundError as e:
    print(type(e).__name__)  # → ModuleNotFoundError

# Python 3.13+
import email, email.policy
raw = b'Subject: Hello\r\nNewsgroups: comp.lang.python\r\n\r\nBody\r\n'
msg = email.message_from_bytes(raw, policy=email.policy.default)
print(msg['Subject'], msg['Newsgroups'])  # → Hello comp.lang.python

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