Re: urllib proxy support confusion

2008-03-14 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Mar 11, 11:35 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reading through the doc athttp://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html, > there are several paragraphs (including code examples) showing > how you specify what proxies to use when calling urlopen(): See http://bugs.python.org/issue22

Re: urllib proxy support confusion

2008-03-11 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Mar 11, 12:26 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before I submit a bug, I'll give it a try to find out if it > does support explicit specification of proxys or not. Sounds good. If it does, then I think the whole paragraph (from "The urlopeen() function does not support explicit pr

Re: urllib proxy support confusion

2008-03-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-03-11, Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That seems a bit baffling.  If it urlopen doesn't support >> specifying proxies, why are there examples showing how to do >> it? If it does support specifying proxies, what is the >> pragraph quoted above supposed to mean? > > Looks like

Re: urllib proxy support confusion

2008-03-11 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Mar 11, 11:35 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That seems a bit baffling.  If it urlopen doesn't support > specifying proxies, why are there examples showing how to do > it? If it does support specifying proxies, what is the pragraph > quoted above supposed to mean? Looks like a d

urllib proxy support confusion

2008-03-11 Thread Grant Edwards
Reading through the doc at http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html, there are several paragraphs (including code examples) showing how you specify what proxies to use when calling urlopen(): Alternatively, the optional proxies argument may be used to explicitly specify proxies. [...]