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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-10-01 13:50:15 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2001-10-01 13:50:15 (GMT)
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Docs for SF patch #462628
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libnntplib.tex b/Doc/lib/libnntplib.tex
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@@ -197,9 +197,15 @@ and \var{list} is a list of the article's headers (an uninterpreted
list of lines, without trailing newlines).
\end{methoddesc}
-\begin{methoddesc}{body}{id}
+\begin{methoddesc}{body}{id,\optional{fileHandle}}
Send a \samp{BODY} command, where \var{id} has the same meaning as for
-\method{stat()}. Return as for \method{head()}.
+\method{stat()}. If the \var{fileHandle} parameter is supplied, then
+the body is stored in a file. If \var{fileHandle} is a string, then
+the method will open a file object with that name, write to it then close it.
+If \var{fileHandle} is a file object, then it will start calling
+\method{write()} on it to store the lines of the body.
+Return as for \method{head()}. If \var{fileHandle} is supplied. Then
+the returned \var{list} is an empty list.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}{article}{id}