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authorBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2003-04-29 04:11:12 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2003-04-29 04:11:12 (GMT)
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Add comment that urlopen opens local files without universal newlines
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@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ It defines the following public functions:
\begin{funcdesc}{urlopen}{url\optional{, data\optional{, proxies}}}
Open a network object denoted by a URL for reading. If the URL does
not have a scheme identifier, or if it has \file{file:} as its scheme
-identifier, this opens a local file; otherwise it opens a socket to a
-server somewhere on the network. If the connection cannot be made, or
-if the server returns an error code, the \exception{IOError} exception
-is raised. If all went well, a file-like object is returned. This
-supports the following methods: \method{read()}, \method{readline()},
-\method{readlines()}, \method{fileno()}, \method{close()},
-\method{info()} and \method{geturl()}. It also has proper support for
-the iterator protocol.
+identifier, this opens a local file (without universal newlines);
+otherwise it opens a socket to a server somewhere on the network. If
+the connection cannot be made, or if the server returns an error code,
+the \exception{IOError} exception is raised. If all went well, a
+file-like object is returned. This supports the following methods:
+\method{read()}, \method{readline()}, \method{readlines()}, \method{fileno()},
+\method{close()}, \method{info()} and \method{geturl()}. It also has
+proper support for the iterator protocol.
Except for the \method{info()} and \method{geturl()} methods,
these methods have the same interface as for