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12.18 <tt class=
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The
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A
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</tt> instance or subclass instance encapsulates data from
a netrc file. The initialization argument, if present, specifies the
file to parse. If no argument is given, the file
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are encountered in source text. Instances of this exception provide
three interesting attributes:
<tt class=
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of the error,
<tt class=
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