Add a tutorial on how to do things which are possible with apt-get,

like apt-get --print-uris update (cf. #551164).

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diff --git a/doc/source/examples/update-print-uris.py b/doc/source/examples/update-print-uris.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+"""Print out the URIs of all indexes files.
+
+This behaves somewhat like apt-get --print-uris update."""
+import apt_pkg
+
+def main():
+    apt_pkg.init_config()
+    apt_pkg.init_system()
+    acquire = apt_pkg.Acquire()
+    slist = apt_pkg.SourceList()
+    # Read the list
+    slist.read_main_list()
+    # Add all indexes to the fetcher.
+    slist.get_indexes(acquire, True)
+
+    # Now print the URI of every item.
+    for item in acquire.items:
+        print item.desc_uri
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()