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Clean up urlopen doc string.

Clarifies what is returned when and that the methods are common between the two.

Patch by Alexander Liu as part of #22797.
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R David Murray 10 years ago
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  1. 12
      Lib/urllib/request.py
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      Misc/ACKS

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Lib/urllib/request.py

@ -173,12 +173,7 @@ def urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
The *cadefault* parameter is ignored.
For http and https urls, this function returns a http.client.HTTPResponse
object which has the following HTTPResponse Objects methods.
For ftp, file, and data urls and requests explicitly handled by legacy
URLopener and FancyURLopener classes, this function returns a
urllib.response.addinfourl object which can work as context manager and has
methods such as:
object which has the following HTTPResponse Objects methods:
* geturl() - return the URL of the resource retrieved, commonly used to
determine if a redirect was followed
@ -190,6 +185,11 @@ def urlopen(url, data=None, timeout=socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT,
* getcode() - return the HTTP status code of the response. Raises URLError
on errors.
For ftp, file, and data urls and requests explicitly handled by legacy
URLopener and FancyURLopener classes, this function returns a
urllib.response.addinfourl object which can work as context manager and
also support the geturl(), info(), getcode() methods listed above.
Note that *None& may be returned if no handler handles the request (though
the default installed global OpenerDirector uses UnknownHandler to ensure
this never happens).

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Misc/ACKS

@ -884,6 +884,7 @@ Eric Lindvall
Gregor Lingl
Everett Lipman
Mirko Liss
Alexander Liu
Nick Lockwood
Stephanie Lockwood
Martin von Löwis

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