From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:25:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #6756: add some info about the "acct" parameter.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~586
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=601ee7f8470bcad409debcdaa053ce456bc158eb;p=python

#6756: add some info about the "acct" parameter.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ftplib.rst b/Doc/library/ftplib.rst
index d5e2ee31f0..63c653b11e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ftplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ftplib.rst
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ followed by ``lines`` for the text version or ``binary`` for the binary version.
    ``'anonymous@'``.  This function should be called only once for each instance,
    after a connection has been established; it should not be called at all if a
    host and user were given when the instance was created.  Most FTP commands are
-   only allowed after the client has logged in.
+   only allowed after the client has logged in.  The *acct* parameter supplies
+   "accounting information"; few systems implement this.
 
 
 .. method:: FTP.abort()