On Jun 20, 4:34 pm, davidj411 <davidj... at gmail.com> wrote: > docs on urllib module say this about the FancyUrlOpener: > "class FancyURLopener( ...) > > FancyURLopener subclasses URLopener providing default handling > for ..." > > does that mean the FancyURLopener is a subclass of URLopener? Yes. Anthimeria is very common in English. Carl Banks