Does Python have a module for parsing HTTP requests and responses?

Question

httplib (now http.client) and friends all have conn.getresponse() and an HTTPResponse class, but the server-side operations of conn.getrequest() and an HTTPRequest class see

Answer 1

For server-side processing you want to look at something like wsgiref.

The WSGI standard parses the request into a simple dictionary with all of the relevant headers and elements.