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[Bug #1441864] Clarify description of 'data' argument

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Andrew M. Kuchling 2006-06-03 18:41:28 +00:00
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@ -18,11 +18,13 @@ The \module{urllib2} module defines the following functions:
Open the URL \var{url}, which can be either a string or a \class{Request} Open the URL \var{url}, which can be either a string or a \class{Request}
object. object.
\var{data} should be a string, which specifies additional data to \var{data} should be a string, which specifies additional data to send
send to the server. In HTTP requests, which are the only ones that to the server. Currently HTTP requests are the only ones that use
support \var{data}, it should be a buffer in the format of \var{data}. For HTTP, the request will be a POST instead of a GET
\mimetype{application/x-www-form-urlencoded}, for example one returned when the \var{data} parameter is provided. \var{data} should be a
from \function{urllib.urlencode()}. buffer in the standard \mimetype{application/x-www-form-urlencoded} format.
The \function{urllib.urlencode()} function takes a mapping or
sequence of 2-tuples and returns a string in this format.
This function returns a file-like object with two additional methods: This function returns a file-like object with two additional methods: