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r60131 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 12:13:29 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 3 lines
#1351692: in pprint, always call format() for dict and list items to enable
custom formatting of contents via subclassing PrettyPrinter.
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r60133 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 12:43:03 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1178141: add addinfourl.code to get http status code from urllib.
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r60134 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 13:05:43 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 4 lines
#856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` env var when checking for proxies
in urllib and using the other ``_proxy`` env vars.
Original patch by Donovan Baarda.
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r60135 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 13:18:17 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 4 lines
#1664522: in urllib, don't read non-existing directories in ftp mode,
returning a 0-byte file -- raise an IOError instead.
Original patch from Phil Knirsch.
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r60136 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 13:57:47 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#799369: document possible sys.platform values.
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r60137 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 14:08:37 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#652749: document the constants added to the builtins by site.py.
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r60138 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 14:59:46 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1648: add sys.gettrace() and sys.getprofile().
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r60139 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 15:17:42 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1669: don't allow shutil.rmtree() to be called on a symlink.
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r60140 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 15:20:02 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
Fix test_pyclbr after urllib change.
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r60141 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-20 15:28:28 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 1 line
Fixed a wrong assumption in configure.in and Include/pyport.h. The is finite function is not called isfinite() but finite(). Sorry, my fault. :)
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r60142 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-20 15:31:27 +0100 (Sun, 20 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1876: fix typos in test_operator.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
index 4b86e88..63fb53e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
@@ -27,16 +27,17 @@
a server somewhere on the network. If the connection cannot be made the
:exc:`IOError` exception is raised. If all went well, a file-like object is
returned. This supports the following methods: :meth:`read`, :meth:`readline`,
- :meth:`readlines`, :meth:`fileno`, :meth:`close`, :meth:`info` and
+ :meth:`readlines`, :meth:`fileno`, :meth:`close`, :meth:`info`, :meth:`getcode` and
:meth:`geturl`. It also has proper support for the :term:`iterator` protocol. One
caveat: the :meth:`read` method, if the size argument is omitted or negative,
may not read until the end of the data stream; there is no good way to determine
that the entire stream from a socket has been read in the general case.
- Except for the :meth:`info` and :meth:`geturl` methods, these methods have the
- same interface as for file objects --- see section :ref:`bltin-file-objects` in
- this manual. (It is not a built-in file object, however, so it can't be used at
- those few places where a true built-in file object is required.)
+ Except for the :meth:`info`, :meth:`getcode` and :meth:`geturl` methods,
+ these methods have the same interface as for file objects --- see section
+ :ref:`bltin-file-objects` in this manual. (It is not a built-in file object,
+ however, so it can't be used at those few places where a true built-in file
+ object is required.)
.. index:: module: mimetools
@@ -58,6 +59,9 @@
the client was redirected to. The :meth:`geturl` method can be used to get at
this redirected URL.
+ The :meth:`getcode` method returns the HTTP status code that was sent with the
+ response, or ``None`` if the URL is no HTTP URL.
+
If the *url* uses the :file:`http:` scheme identifier, the optional *data*
argument may be given to specify a ``POST`` request (normally the request type
is ``GET``). The *data* argument must be in standard
@@ -75,6 +79,11 @@
% python
...
+ The :envvar:`no_proxy` environment variable can be used to specify hosts which
+ shouldn't be reached via proxy; if set, it should be a comma-separated list
+ of hostname suffixes, optionally with ``:port`` appended, for example
+ ``cern.ch,ncsa.uiuc.edu,some.host:8080``.
+
In a Windows environment, if no proxy environment variables are set, proxy
settings are obtained from the registry's Internet Settings section.