Re: Question about the wording in the python documents.

2009-05-02 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
> On May 2, 4:14 am, Sebastian Wiesner wrote: >> > >> > In either case, I think you're picking a nit so small that it isn't >> > actually there. All objects are instances (in Python), and all >> > instances are objects. >> >> Exactly, so strictly seen, "Request object" could possibly refer to th

Re: Question about the wording in the python documents.

2009-05-02 Thread grocery_stocker
On May 2, 4:14 am, Sebastian Wiesner wrote: > > I don't understand your objection. Is it that the > documentation calls it > > Request instead of urllib2.Request? Or that it calls it an object instead > > of an instance? > > I guess the latter ... > > > In either case, I think you're picking a ni

Re: Question about the wording in the python documents.

2009-05-02 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message , grocery_stocker wrote: > req is clearly an instance of urllib2.Request and not a Request object. "Object" is a term commonly used to mean "instance of a class". In Python, classes are also objects, but if classes were meant rather than instances, I imagine it would say so. -- http

Re: Question about the wording in the python documents.

2009-05-02 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
> I don't understand your objection. Is it that the documentation calls it > Request instead of urllib2.Request? Or that it calls it an object instead > of an instance? I guess the latter ... > In either case, I think you're picking a nit so small that it isn't > actually there. All objects are i

Re: Question about the wording in the python documents.

2009-05-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 01 May 2009 13:02:59 -0700, grocery_stocker wrote: > I don't get how urllib2.urlopen() can take a Request object. When I do > the following > > [cdal...@localhost ~]$ python > Python 2.4.3 (#1, Oct 1 2006, 18:00:19) [GCC 4.1.1 20060928 (Red Hat > 4.1.1-28)] on linux2 Type "help", "co

Re: Question about the wording in the python documents.

2009-05-01 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 5/1/2009 1:02 PM grocery_stocker said... At the following url... http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html They have the following... "urllib2.urlopen(url[, data][, timeout]) Open the URL url, which can be either a string or a Request object" I don't get how urllib2.urlopen() can ta