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r86296 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-11-07 20:57:04 +0800 (Sun, 07 Nov 2010) | 3 lines
Fix Issue10226 - Clarifying the role of the netloc separator.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urlparse.rst b/Doc/library/urlparse.rst
index 26d422f..88dafa9 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urlparse.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urlparse.rst
@@ -64,11 +64,10 @@
'http://www.cwi.nl:80/%7Eguido/Python.html'
- If the scheme value is not specified, urlparse following the syntax
- specifications from RFC 1808, expects the netloc value to start with '//',
- Otherwise, it is not possible to distinguish between net_loc and path
- component and would classify the indistinguishable component as path as in
- a relative url.
+ Following the syntax specifications in :rfc:`1808`, urlparse recognizes
+ a netloc only if it is properly introduced by '//'. Otherwise the
+ input is presumed to be a relative URL and thus to start with
+ a path component.
>>> from urlparse import urlparse
>>> urlparse('//www.cwi.nl:80/%7Eguido/Python.html')