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@@ -106,9 +106,6 @@ It defines the following public functions:
Proxies which require authentication for use are not currently supported; this
is considered an implementation limitation.
- .. versionchanged:: 2.3
- Added the *proxies* support.
-
.. function:: urlretrieve(url[, filename[, reporthook[, data]]])
@@ -135,22 +132,21 @@ It defines the following public functions:
:mimetype:`application/x-www-form-urlencoded` format; see the :func:`urlencode`
function below.
- .. versionchanged:: 2.5
- :func:`urlretrieve` will raise :exc:`ContentTooShortError` when it detects that
- the amount of data available was less than the expected amount (which is the
- size reported by a *Content-Length* header). This can occur, for example, when
- the download is interrupted.
+ :func:`urlretrieve` will raise :exc:`ContentTooShortError` when it detects that
+ the amount of data available was less than the expected amount (which is the
+ size reported by a *Content-Length* header). This can occur, for example, when
+ the download is interrupted.
- The *Content-Length* is treated as a lower bound: if there's more data to read,
- urlretrieve reads more data, but if less data is available, it raises the
- exception.
+ The *Content-Length* is treated as a lower bound: if there's more data to read,
+ urlretrieve reads more data, but if less data is available, it raises the
+ exception.
- You can still retrieve the downloaded data in this case, it is stored in the
- :attr:`content` attribute of the exception instance.
+ You can still retrieve the downloaded data in this case, it is stored in the
+ :attr:`content` attribute of the exception instance.
- If no *Content-Length* header was supplied, urlretrieve can not check the size
- of the data it has downloaded, and just returns it. In this case you just have
- to assume that the download was successful.
+ If no *Content-Length* header was supplied, urlretrieve can not check the size
+ of the data it has downloaded, and just returns it. In this case you just have
+ to assume that the download was successful.
.. data:: _urlopener
@@ -301,8 +297,6 @@ It defines the following public functions:
*Content-Length* header). The :attr:`content` attribute stores the downloaded
(and supposedly truncated) data.
- .. versionadded:: 2.5
-
Restrictions:
.. index::