Commit a41c9426 authored by Senthil Kumaran's avatar Senthil Kumaran

Doc improvements suggested by Éric Araujo for the new 'HEAD' Request feature.

parent c6b4ef10
......@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ The following classes are provided:
*method* should be a string that indicates the HTTP request method that
will be used (e.g. ``'HEAD'``). Its value is stored in the
:attr:`Request.method` attribute and is used by :meth:`Request.get_method()`.
:attr:`~Request.method` attribute and is used by :meth:`get_method()`.
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
:attr:`Request.method` argument is added to the Request class.
......@@ -379,11 +379,11 @@ request.
.. attribute:: Request.method
The HTTP request method to use. This value is used by
:meth:`Request.get_method` to override the computed HTTP request
method that would otherwise be returned. This attribute is
initialized with the value of the *method* argument passed to the constructor.
:meth:`~Request.get_method` to override the computed HTTP request
method that would otherwise be returned. This attribute is initialized with
the value of the *method* argument passed to the constructor.
..versionadded:: 3.3
.. versionadded:: 3.3
.. method:: Request.add_data(data)
......@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ request.
This is only meaningful for HTTP requests.
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
get_method now looks at the value of :attr:`Request.method` first.
get_method now looks at the value of :attr:`Request.method`.
.. method:: Request.has_data()
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......@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ urllib
The :class:`~urllib.request.Request` class, now accepts a *method* argument
used by :meth:`~urllib.request.Request.get_method` to determine what HTTP method
should be used. For example, this will send an ``'HEAD'`` request::
should be used. For example, this will send a ``'HEAD'`` request::
>>> urlopen(Request('http://www.python.org', method='HEAD'))
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