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diff --git a/Doc/library/simplehttpserver.rst b/Doc/library/simplehttpserver.rst index 2f1af89..7d99681 100644 --- a/Doc/library/simplehttpserver.rst +++ b/Doc/library/simplehttpserver.rst @@ -7,39 +7,40 @@ .. sectionauthor:: Moshe Zadka <moshez@zadka.site.co.il> -The :mod:`SimpleHTTPServer` module defines a request-handler class, -interface-compatible with :class:`BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler`, that -serves files only from a base directory. +The :mod:`SimpleHTTPServer` module defines a single class, +:class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler`, which is interface-compatible with +:class:`BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler`. The :mod:`SimpleHTTPServer` module defines the following class: .. class:: SimpleHTTPRequestHandler(request, client_address, server) - This class is used to serve files from the current directory and below, directly + This class serves files from the current directory and below, directly mapping the directory structure to HTTP requests. A lot of the work, such as parsing the request, is done by the base class :class:`BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler`. This class implements the :func:`do_GET` and :func:`do_HEAD` functions. - The :class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` defines the following member variables: + The following are defined as class-level attributes of + :class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler`: .. attribute:: server_version - This will be ``"SimpleHTTP/" + __version__``, where ``__version__`` is - defined in the module. + This will be ``"SimpleHTTP/" + __version__``, where ``__version__`` is + defined at the module level. .. attribute:: extensions_map - A dictionary mapping suffixes into MIME types. The default is signified by - an empty string, and is considered to be ``application/octet-stream``. The - mapping is used case-insensitively, and so should contain only lower-cased - keys. + A dictionary mapping suffixes into MIME types. The default is + signified by an empty string, and is considered to be + ``application/octet-stream``. The mapping is used case-insensitively, + and so should contain only lower-cased keys. - The :class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` defines the following methods: + The :class:`SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` class defines the following methods: .. method:: do_HEAD() |