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ntplib is actually for communicating with time ser...

Dirkjan Ochtman · 2009-05-18T07:17:00

ntplib is actually for communicating with time servers, not for news (that would be NNTP, and it's in the stdlib).

> If you wanted to write a Unix daemon in Pytho...

Anonymous · 2009-05-18T10:16:00

> If you wanted to write a Unix daemon in Python you could use the python-daemon library that implements PEP 3143.

Hey, thanks for the shout-out :-)

> You could write a network news client with ntplib.

Actually, ntplib is documented to implement NTP, the Network Time Protocol.

@{dic,bignose}: thanks. I've used nntplib - clearl...

Steve · 2009-05-18T10:53:00

@{dic,bignose}: thanks. I've used nntplib - clearly it was late when I wrote the post. Fixed, thanks.