Doc improvements suggested by Éric Araujo for the new 'HEAD' Request feature.

diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index b16475af989ef3e7cc7a1a7014dab93898bc53ad..b69b3b34c15b18f2cb0284e1990ec1cf318f15f5 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ The following classes are provided:
 
    *method* should be a string that indicates the HTTP request method that
    will be used (e.g. ``'HEAD'``).  Its value is stored in the
-   :attr:`Request.method` attribute and is used by :meth:`Request.get_method()`.
+   :attr:`~Request.method` attribute and is used by :meth:`get_method()`.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.3
     :attr:`Request.method` argument is added to the Request class.
@@ -379,11 +379,11 @@ request.
 .. attribute:: Request.method
 
    The HTTP request method to use.  This value is used by
-   :meth:`Request.get_method` to override the computed HTTP request
-   method that would otherwise be returned.  This attribute is
-   initialized with the value of the *method* argument passed to the constructor.
+   :meth:`~Request.get_method` to override the computed HTTP request
+   method that would otherwise be returned.  This attribute is initialized with
+   the value of the *method* argument passed to the constructor.
 
-   ..versionadded:: 3.3
+   .. versionadded:: 3.3
 
 .. method:: Request.add_data(data)
 
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ request.
    This is only meaningful for HTTP requests.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.3
-      get_method now looks at the value of :attr:`Request.method` first.
+      get_method now looks at the value of :attr:`Request.method`.
 
 
 .. method:: Request.has_data()

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index eb62968606d910f7953207b85deb7484e6a79b6e..b433c6c10ebb8aa1e266d7837136615d45104379 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ urllib
 
 The :class:`~urllib.request.Request` class, now accepts a *method* argument
 used by :meth:`~urllib.request.Request.get_method` to determine what HTTP method
-should be used.  For example, this will send an ``'HEAD'`` request::
+should be used.  For example, this will send a ``'HEAD'`` request::
 
    >>> urlopen(Request('http://www.python.org', method='HEAD'))