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| author | Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> | 2011-04-16 12:34:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> | 2011-04-16 12:34:29 (GMT) |
| commit | 3384e54c23299da91e27cf08ab621e3597c41348 (patch) | |
| tree | 6d19c82b27bcec62db30bc44712d78ba4a0946f8 /Doc/library/urllib.request.rst | |
| parent | f05c1394fe3c27e0fe33db984cf2f8bd9a4a1d47 (diff) | |
| parent | 219cc776f6420c9cc9c3c5e96960d25fc42546a3 (diff) | |
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Issue #11855: merge from 3.1
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index 9a905c6..3e24956 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -1113,15 +1113,15 @@ some point in the future. the download is interrupted. The *Content-Length* is treated as a lower bound: if there's more data to read, - urlretrieve reads more data, but if less data is available, it raises the - exception. + :func:`urlretrieve` reads more data, but if less data is available, it raises + the exception. You can still retrieve the downloaded data in this case, it is stored in the :attr:`content` attribute of the exception instance. - If no *Content-Length* header was supplied, urlretrieve can not check the size - of the data it has downloaded, and just returns it. In this case you just have - to assume that the download was successful. + If no *Content-Length* header was supplied, :func:`urlretrieve` can not check + the size of the data it has downloaded, and just returns it. In this case + you just have to assume that the download was successful. .. function:: urlcleanup() |