# File: robotparser-example-1.py

import robotparser

r = robotparser.RobotFileParser()
r.set_url("http://www.python.org/robots.txt")
r.read()

if r.can_fetch("*", "/index.html"):
    print "may fetch the home page"

if r.can_fetch("*", "/tim_one/index.html"):
    print "may fetch the tim peters archive"

## $ python robotparser-example-1.py
## may fetch the home page