from nntplib import NNTP

servername = 'news.foo.bar'
group = 'comp.lang.python.announce'
server = NNTP(servername)
howmany = 10

resp, count, first, last, name = server.group(group)

start = last - howmany + 1

resp, overviews = server.over((start, last))

for id, over in overviews:
    subject = over['subject']
    resp, info = server.body(id)
    print(subject)
    print('-' * len(subject))
    for line in info.lines:
        print(line.decode('latin1'))
    print()

server.quit()