bpo-12707: deprecate info(), geturl(), getcode() methods in favor of headers, url, and status properties for HTTPResponse and addinfourl (GH-11447)

Co-Authored-By: epicfaace <aramaswamis@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index f6ce9cb..267a90d 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -163,18 +163,10 @@ def urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
 
     The *cadefault* parameter is ignored.
 
-    This function always returns an object which can work as a context
-    manager and has methods such as
 
-    * geturl() - return the URL of the resource retrieved, commonly used to
-      determine if a redirect was followed
-
-    * info() - return the meta-information of the page, such as headers, in the
-      form of an email.message_from_string() instance (see Quick Reference to
-      HTTP Headers)
-
-    * getcode() - return the HTTP status code of the response.  Raises URLError
-      on errors.
+    This function always returns an object which can work as a
+    context manager and has the properties url, headers, and status.
+    See urllib.response.addinfourl for more detail on these properties.
 
     For HTTP and HTTPS URLs, this function returns a http.client.HTTPResponse
     object slightly modified. In addition to the three new methods above, the
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/response.py b/Lib/urllib/response.py
index 4778118..5a2c3cc 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/response.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/response.py
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ class addinfourl(addinfo):
         self.url = url
         self.code = code
 
+    @property
+    def status(self):
+        return self.code
+
     def getcode(self):
         return self.code