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-rw-r--r--Doc/howto/urllib2.rst8
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/urllib.request.rst19
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
index 77ef505..b683ab6 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/urllib2.rst
@@ -523,10 +523,10 @@ Proxies
**urllib** will auto-detect your proxy settings and use those. This is through
the ``ProxyHandler``, which is part of the normal handler chain when a proxy
-setting is detected. Normally that's
-a good thing, but there are occasions when it may not be helpful [#]_. One way
-to do this is to setup our own ``ProxyHandler``, with no proxies defined. This
-is done using similar steps to setting up a `Basic Authentication`_ handler : ::
+setting is detected. Normally that's a good thing, but there are occasions
+when it may not be helpful [#]_. One way to do this is to setup our own
+``ProxyHandler``, with no proxies defined. This is done using similar steps to
+setting up a `Basic Authentication`_ handler : ::
>>> proxy_support = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({})
>>> opener = urllib.request.build_opener(proxy_support)
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index a027c53..3908bd1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -129,10 +129,9 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions:
the constructor without any parameters). Instances of the following classes
will be in front of the *handler*\s, unless the *handler*\s contain them,
instances of them or subclasses of them: :class:`ProxyHandler` (if proxy
- settings are detected),
- :class:`UnknownHandler`, :class:`HTTPHandler`, :class:`HTTPDefaultErrorHandler`,
- :class:`HTTPRedirectHandler`, :class:`FTPHandler`, :class:`FileHandler`,
- :class:`HTTPErrorProcessor`, :class:`DataHandler`.
+ settings are detected), :class:`UnknownHandler`, :class:`HTTPHandler`,
+ :class:`HTTPDefaultErrorHandler`, :class:`HTTPRedirectHandler`,
+ :class:`FTPHandler`, :class:`FileHandler`, :class:`HTTPErrorProcessor`.
If the Python installation has SSL support (i.e., if the :mod:`ssl` module
can be imported), :class:`HTTPSHandler` will also be added.
@@ -257,12 +256,12 @@ The following classes are provided:
.. class:: ProxyHandler(proxies=None)
Cause requests to go through a proxy. If *proxies* is given, it must be a
- dictionary mapping protocol names to URLs of proxies. The default is to read the
- list of proxies from the environment variables :envvar:`<protocol>_proxy`.
- If no proxy environment variables are set, then in a Windows environment proxy
- settings are obtained from the registry's Internet Settings section, and in a
- Mac OS X environment proxy information is retrieved from the OS X System
- Configuration Framework.
+ dictionary mapping protocol names to URLs of proxies. The default is to read
+ the list of proxies from the environment variables
+ :envvar:`<protocol>_proxy`. If no proxy environment variables are set, then
+ in a Windows environment proxy settings are obtained from the registry's
+ Internet Settings section, and in a Mac OS X environment proxy information
+ is retrieved from the OS X System Configuration Framework.
To disable autodetected proxy pass an empty dictionary.