#10705: document what the values of debuglevel are and mean.

d89bc3ff · R. David Murray · ce4b170c · d89bc3ff
Commit d89bc3ff authored Dec 15, 2010 by R. David Murray
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@@ -405,8 +405,10 @@ HTTPConnection Objects

 .. method:: HTTPConnection.set_debuglevel(level)

-   Set the debugging level (the amount of debugging output printed). The default
-   debug level is ``0``, meaning no debugging output is printed.
+   Set the debugging level.  The default debug level is ``0``, meaning no
+   debugging output is printed.  Any value greater than ``0`` will cause all
+   currently defined debug output to be printed to stdout.  The ``debuglevel``
+   is passed to any new :class:`HTTPResponse` objects that are created.

   .. versionadded:: 3.1