From: Antoine Pitrou Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:03:47 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 88371 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v2.7.2rc1~332 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e9bd9dbc7336d3c9816b2f96eb67f1dcb8e1bd28;p=python Merged revisions 88371 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r88371 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-02-07 16:58:11 +0100 (lun., 07 févr. 2011) | 3 lines Clarify that IMAP4() implicitly calls open(), and that logout() implicitly calls shutdown(). ........ --- diff --git a/Doc/library/imaplib.rst b/Doc/library/imaplib.rst index 72ea7e8533..fd090417db 100644 --- a/Doc/library/imaplib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/imaplib.rst @@ -307,9 +307,10 @@ An :class:`IMAP4` instance has the following methods: .. method:: IMAP4.open(host, port) - Opens socket to *port* at *host*. The connection objects established by this + Opens socket to *port* at *host*. This method is implicitly called by + the :class:`IMAP4` constructor. The connection objects established by this method will be used in the ``read``, ``readline``, ``send``, and ``shutdown`` - methods. You may override this method. + methods. You may override this method. .. method:: IMAP4.partial(message_num, message_part, start, length) @@ -405,7 +406,8 @@ An :class:`IMAP4` instance has the following methods: .. method:: IMAP4.shutdown() - Close connection established in ``open``. You may override this method. + Close connection established in ``open``. This method is implicitly + called by :meth:`IMAP4.logout`. You may override this method. .. method:: IMAP4.socket()