nntplib.NNTP.getcapabilities()

NNTP.getcapabilities()

Return the RFC 3977 capabilities advertised by the server, as a dict instance mapping capability names to (possibly empty) lists of values. On legacy servers which don’t understand the CAPABILITIES command, an empty dictionary is returned instead.

>>> s = NNTP('news.gmane.org')
>>> 'POST' in s.getcapabilities()
True

New in version 3.2.

Links:

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/nntplib.html#nntplib.NNTP.getcapabilities

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2016-10-07 17:38:11

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