diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/liburllib.tex')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/liburllib.tex | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/liburllib.tex b/Doc/liburllib.tex index 51a700a..5f8297d 100644 --- a/Doc/liburllib.tex +++ b/Doc/liburllib.tex @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ \renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(in module urllib)} This module provides a high-level interface for fetching data across -the World-Wide Web. In particular, the \code{urlopen} function is -similar to the built-in function \code{open}, but accepts URLs +the World-Wide Web. In particular, the \code{urlopen()} function is +similar to the built-in function \code{open()}, but accepts URLs (Universal Resource Locators) instead of filenames. Some restrictions apply --- it can only open URLs for reading, and no seek operations are available. -it defines the following public functions: +It defines the following public functions: \begin{funcdesc}{urlopen}{url} Open a network object denoted by a URL for reading. If the URL does @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ The \code{info()} method returns an instance of the class if the protocol uses such headers (currently the only supported protocol that uses this is HTTP). See the description of the \code{mimetools} module. +\refstmodindex{mimetools} \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{urlretrieve}{url} @@ -118,15 +119,15 @@ looking at the \code{Content-type} header. For the Gopher protocol, type information is encoded in the URL; there is currently no easy way to extract it. If the returned data is HTML, you can use the module \code{htmllib} to parse it. -\index{HTML} -\index{HTTP} -\index{Gopher} -\stmodindex{htmllib} +\index{HTML}% +\index{HTTP}% +\index{Gopher}% +\refstmodindex{htmllib} \item Although the \code{urllib} module contains (undocumented) routines to parse and unparse URL strings, the recommended interface for URL manipulation is in module \code{urlparse}. -\stmodindex{urlparse} +\refstmodindex{urlparse} \end{itemize} |