Source: python-w3lib Maintainer: Debian Python Team Uploaders: Ignace Mouzannar , Andrey Rakhmatullin Section: python Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-sequence-python3, python3-all, python3-pytest , python3-setuptools, python3-six, Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-w3lib Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-w3lib.git Homepage: https://github.com/scrapy/w3lib Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-python Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: python3-w3lib Architecture: all Depends: python3-six, ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, Description: Collection of web-related functions (Python 3) Python module with simple, reusable functions to work with URLs, HTML, forms, and HTTP, that aren’t found in the Python standard library. . This module is used to, for example: - remove comments, or tags from HTML snippets - extract base url from HTML snippets - translate entities on HTML strings - encoding mulitpart/form-data - convert raw HTTP headers to dicts and vice-versa - construct HTTP auth header - RFC-compliant url joining - sanitize urls (like browsers do) - extract arguments from urls . The code of w3lib was originally part of the Scrapy framework but was later stripped out of Scrapy, with the aim of make it more reusable and to provide a useful library of web functions without depending on Scrapy. . This is the Python 3 version of the package.