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| author | Emmanuel Arias <eamanu@yaerobi.com> | 2021-11-17 09:07:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-11-17 09:07:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 15409c720be0503131713e3d3abc1acd0da07378 (patch) | |
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bpo-28806: Continue work: improve the netrc library (GH-26330)
Continue with the improvement of the library netrc
Original work and report Xiang Zhang <angwerzx@126.com>
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Co-authored-by: blurb-it[bot] <43283697+blurb-it[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/netrc.rst b/Doc/library/netrc.rst index 4bf7de6..88265d9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/netrc.rst +++ b/Doc/library/netrc.rst @@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ the Unix :program:`ftp` program and other FTP clients. .. versionchanged:: 3.10 :class:`netrc` try UTF-8 encoding before using locale specific encoding. + The entry in the netrc file no longer needs to contain all tokens. The missing + tokens' value default to an empty string. All the tokens and their values now + can contain arbitrary characters, like whitespace and non-ASCII characters. + If the login name is anonymous, it won't trigger the security check. .. exception:: NetrcParseError @@ -85,10 +89,3 @@ Instances of :class:`~netrc.netrc` have public instance variables: .. attribute:: netrc.macros Dictionary mapping macro names to string lists. - -.. note:: - - Passwords are limited to a subset of the ASCII character set. All ASCII - punctuation is allowed in passwords, however, note that whitespace and - non-printable characters are not allowed in passwords. This is a limitation - of the way the .netrc file is parsed and may be removed in the future. |