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author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-06-12 18:52:31 (GMT) |
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committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2008-06-12 18:52:31 (GMT) |
commit | 83e9f4cd77f0cf4e47d505643c00b0dc3debace3 (patch) | |
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Remove last traces of mimetools.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.rst index 646b048..3435e55 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.rst @@ -39,19 +39,17 @@ High-level interface however, so it can't be used at those few places where a true built-in file object is required.) - .. index:: module: mimetools - The :meth:`info` method returns an instance of the class - :class:`mimetools.Message` containing meta-information associated with the - URL. When the method is HTTP, these headers are those returned by the server - at the head of the retrieved HTML page (including Content-Length and + :class:`email.message.Message` containing meta-information associated with + the URL. When the method is HTTP, these headers are those returned by the + server at the head of the retrieved HTML page (including Content-Length and Content-Type). When the method is FTP, a Content-Length header will be present if (as is now usual) the server passed back a file length in response to the FTP retrieval request. A Content-Type header will be present if the MIME type can be guessed. When the method is local-file, returned headers will include a Date representing the file's last-modified time, a Content-Length giving file size, and a Content-Type containing a guess at the - file's type. See also the description of the :mod:`mimetools` module. + file's type. The :meth:`geturl` method returns the real URL of the page. In some cases, the HTTP server redirects a client to another URL. The :func:`urlopen` function @@ -288,7 +286,7 @@ URL Opener objects Retrieves the contents of *url* and places it in *filename*. The return value is a tuple consisting of a local filename and either a - :class:`mimetools.Message` object containing the response headers (for remote + :class:`email.message.Message` object containing the response headers (for remote URLs) or ``None`` (for local URLs). The caller must then open and read the contents of *filename*. If *filename* is not given and the URL refers to a local file, the input filename is returned. If the URL is non-local and |