From c994186dad39eee832112318d63f96189d8f2b57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:47:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing issue5475 : urllib2.getproxies not documented

---
 Doc/library/urllib.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
index 2e2fa433cd..b48973bbfd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
@@ -265,6 +265,15 @@ Utility functions
    to decode *path*.
 
 
+.. function:: getproxies()
+
+   This helper function returns a dictionary of scheme to proxy server URL
+   mappings. It scans the environment for variables named ``<scheme>_proxy``
+   for all operating systems first, and when it cannot find it, looks for proxy
+   information from Mac OSX System Configuration for Mac OS X and Windows
+   Systems Registry for Windows.
+
+
 URL Opener objects
 ------------------
 
-- 
2.50.1