From 4cee9bff1fc23845e772f84796a6ffece29e7fa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Senthil Kumaran Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 04:01:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 81283 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r81283 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-05-18 09:28:36 +0530 (Tue, 18 May 2010) | 3 lines Removing the reference in the docs for overriding _urlopener global value. See Issue8619 for details. ........ --- Doc/library/urllib.request.rst | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index 03362db03b8..53b9c2e275a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -126,26 +126,6 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions: of the data it has downloaded, and just returns it. In this case you just have to assume that the download was successful. - -.. data:: _urlopener - - The public functions :func:`urlopen` and :func:`urlretrieve` create an instance - of the :class:`FancyURLopener` class and use it to perform their requested - actions. To override this functionality, programmers can create a subclass of - :class:`URLopener` or :class:`FancyURLopener`, then assign an instance of that - class to the ``urllib.request._urlopener`` variable before calling the - desired function. For example, applications may want to specify a different - :mailheader:`User-Agent` header than :class:`URLopener` defines. - This can be accomplished with the following code:: - - import urllib.request - - class AppURLopener(urllib.request.FancyURLopener): - version = "App/1.7" - - urllib.request._urlopener = AppURLopener() - - .. function:: urlcleanup() Clear the cache that may have been built up by previous calls to