From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:27:02 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 76284 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v3.1.2rc1~340 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=04454cd60de6a1ee7e598cc4f31342eadf12a92e;p=python Merged revisions 76284 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ................ r76284 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-11-15 11:50:55 +0530 (Sun, 15 Nov 2009) | 9 lines Merged revisions 76282 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r76282 | senthil.kumaran | 2009-11-15 11:40:30 +0530 (Sun, 15 Nov 2009) | 3 lines Addition of some details in the code comments. ........ ................ --- diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py index 9f7ebd7afc..4ed46ff0b5 100644 --- a/Lib/urllib/request.py +++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py @@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ handler, the argument will be installed instead of the default. install_opener -- Installs a new opener as the default opener. objects of interest: -OpenerDirector -- + +OpenerDirector -- Sets up the User-Agent as the Python-urllib and manages the +Handler classes while dealing with both requests and responses. Request -- An object that encapsulates the state of a request. The state can be as simple as the URL. It can also include extra HTTP @@ -398,7 +400,7 @@ def build_opener(*handlers): """Create an opener object from a list of handlers. The opener will use several default handlers, including support - for HTTP and FTP. + for HTTP, FTP and when applicable HTTPS. If any of the handlers passed as arguments are subclasses of the default handlers, the default handlers will not be used.