New submission from Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Grant Edwards pointed out in a comp.lang.python posting that the documentation for urlopen in the urllib module appears to be self- contradictory: at http://docs.python.org/dev/library/urllib.html in the third-to-last paragraph for the urllib function, it says:
"Alternatively, the optional proxies argument may be used to explicitly specify proxies..." and goes on to give examples. Then the second-to-last paragraph seems to directly contradict this: "The urlopen() function does not support explicit proxy specification. If you need to override environmental proxy settings, use URLopener, or a subclass such as FancyURLopener." I suspect that this second paragraph should just be deleted in its entirety. ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 63529 nosy: georg.brandl, marketdickinson severity: normal status: open title: Confusing documentation for urllip.urlopen versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0 __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2288> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
