From: R. David Murray Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:26:49 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Issue 6685: 'toupper' -> 'upper' in cgi doc example explanation. X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~649 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2c9e33f3a6b97b9b3ea16a92ccf3b38d9816aa78;p=python Issue 6685: 'toupper' -> 'upper' in cgi doc example explanation. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/cgi.rst b/Doc/library/cgi.rst index 138f8085eb..efee71119f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/cgi.rst +++ b/Doc/library/cgi.rst @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ The problem with the code is that you should never expect that a client will provide valid input to your scripts. For example, if a curious user appends another ``user=foo`` pair to the query string, then the script would crash, because in this situation the ``getvalue("user")`` method call returns a list -instead of a string. Calling the :meth:`toupper` method on a list is not valid +instead of a string. Calling the :meth:`~str.upper` method on a list is not valid (since lists do not have a method of this name) and results in an :exc:`AttributeError` exception.