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diff --git a/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex b/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex index f77ed25..be36e3d 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/liburllib2.tex @@ -18,11 +18,13 @@ The \module{urllib2} module defines the following functions: Open the URL \var{url}, which can be either a string or a \class{Request} object. -\var{data} should be a string, which specifies additional data to -send to the server. In HTTP requests, which are the only ones that -support \var{data}, it should be a buffer in the format of -\mimetype{application/x-www-form-urlencoded}, for example one returned -from \function{urllib.urlencode()}. +\var{data} should be a string, which specifies additional data to send +to the server. Currently HTTP requests are the only ones that use +\var{data}. For HTTP, the request will be a POST instead of a GET +when the \var{data} parameter is provided. \var{data} should be a +buffer in the standard \mimetype{application/x-www-form-urlencoded} format. +The \function{urllib.urlencode()} function takes a mapping or +sequence of 2-tuples and returns a string in this format. This function returns a file-like object with two additional methods: |