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changeset 69390:0f1199858714 3.2

Issue #11855: merge from 3.1 [#11855]

Eli Bendersky eliben@gmail.com
date	Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:34:29 +0300
parents	033dd346df57(current diff)a6d9f9329070(diff)
children	c49c595e4214 2596389a993d
files	Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
diffstat	1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)[+] [-] Doc/library/urllib.request.rst 10

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--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -1113,15 +1113,15 @@ some point in the future. the download is interrupted. The Content-Length is treated as a lower bound: if there's more data to read,

urlretrieve reads more data, but if less data is available, it raises the
exception.

:func:urlretrieve reads more data, but if less data is available, it raises
the exception. You can still retrieve the downloaded data in this case, it is stored in the :attr:content attribute of the exception instance.

If no Content-Length header was supplied, urlretrieve can not check the size
of the data it has downloaded, and just returns it. In this case you just have
to assume that the download was successful.

If no Content-Length header was supplied, :func:urlretrieve can not check
the size of the data it has downloaded, and just returns it. In this case
you just have to assume that the download was successful.

.. function:: urlcleanup()