urllib proxy support confusion

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-03-11, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:

>> That seems a bit baffling.  If it urlopen doesn't support
>> specifying proxies, why are there examples showing how to do
>> it? If it does support specifying proxies, what is the
>> pragraph quoted above supposed to mean?
>
> Looks like a definite documentation bug to me, and it's still
> there in the development version of the documentation.  I
> think a bug report should be filed.
>
> A little bit of investigation shows that the documentation
> changes were made in svn revisions 26181 and 26182 (
>
> http://svn.python.org/view?view=rev&rev=26181
>
> ) as a fix for
>
> http://bugs.python.org/issue523415
>
> but this doesn't seem to help much with figuring out what the
> docs intend to say.

Before I submit a bug, I'll give it a try to find out if it
does support explicit specification of proxys or not.


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