to an absolute URL given a "base URL."
The module has been designed to match the Internet RFC on Relative Uniform
-Resource Locators (and discovered a bug in an earlier draft!). It supports the
-following URL schemes: ``file``, ``ftp``, ``gopher``, ``hdl``, ``http``,
-``https``, ``imap``, ``mailto``, ``mms``, ``news``, ``nntp``, ``prospero``,
-``rsync``, ``rtsp``, ``rtspu``, ``sftp``, ``shttp``, ``sip``, ``sips``,
-``snews``, ``svn``, ``svn+ssh``, ``telnet``, ``wais``.
+Resource Locators. It supports the following URL schemes: ``file``, ``ftp``,
+``gopher``, ``hdl``, ``http``, ``https``, ``imap``, ``mailto``, ``mms``,
+``news``, ``nntp``, ``prospero``, ``rsync``, ``rtsp``, ``rtspu``, ``sftp``,
+``shttp``, ``sip``, ``sips``, ``snews``, ``svn``, ``svn+ssh``, ``telnet``,
+``wais``.
The :mod:`urllib.parse` module defines functions that fall into two broad
categories: URL parsing and URL quoting. These are covered in detail in