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authorSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2011-10-19 18:37:08 (GMT)
committerSenthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>2011-10-19 18:37:08 (GMT)
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Doc improvements suggested by Éric Araujo for the new 'HEAD' Request feature.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/urllib.request.rst12
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst2
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index b16475a..b69b3b3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ The following classes are provided:
*method* should be a string that indicates the HTTP request method that
will be used (e.g. ``'HEAD'``). Its value is stored in the
- :attr:`Request.method` attribute and is used by :meth:`Request.get_method()`.
+ :attr:`~Request.method` attribute and is used by :meth:`get_method()`.
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
:attr:`Request.method` argument is added to the Request class.
@@ -379,11 +379,11 @@ request.
.. attribute:: Request.method
The HTTP request method to use. This value is used by
- :meth:`Request.get_method` to override the computed HTTP request
- method that would otherwise be returned. This attribute is
- initialized with the value of the *method* argument passed to the constructor.
+ :meth:`~Request.get_method` to override the computed HTTP request
+ method that would otherwise be returned. This attribute is initialized with
+ the value of the *method* argument passed to the constructor.
- ..versionadded:: 3.3
+ .. versionadded:: 3.3
.. method:: Request.add_data(data)
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ request.
This is only meaningful for HTTP requests.
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
- get_method now looks at the value of :attr:`Request.method` first.
+ get_method now looks at the value of :attr:`Request.method`.
.. method:: Request.has_data()
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index eb62968..b433c6c 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ urllib
The :class:`~urllib.request.Request` class, now accepts a *method* argument
used by :meth:`~urllib.request.Request.get_method` to determine what HTTP method
-should be used. For example, this will send an ``'HEAD'`` request::
+should be used. For example, this will send a ``'HEAD'`` request::
>>> urlopen(Request('http://www.python.org', method='HEAD'))