[Python-checkins] bpo-36064: Clarify allowed data types for urllib.request.Request. (GH-11990)
Carol Willing
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Thu Mar 28 22:15:37 EDT 2019
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9e30fbac019d9c0a31d444a711e845c7e883caf5
commit: 9e30fbac019d9c0a31d444a711e845c7e883caf5
branch: master
author: Julien Palard <julien at palard.fr>
committer: Carol Willing <carolcode at willingconsulting.com>
date: 2019-03-28T19:15:34-07:00
summary:
bpo-36064: Clarify allowed data types for urllib.request.Request. (GH-11990)
files:
M Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index 289bfcaebc3d..f56da1b341fe 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ The following classes are provided:
*data* must be an object specifying additional data to send to the
server, or ``None`` if no such data is needed. Currently HTTP
requests are the only ones that use *data*. The supported object
- types include bytes, file-like objects, and iterables. If no
- ``Content-Length`` nor ``Transfer-Encoding`` header field
+ types include bytes, file-like objects, and iterables of bytes-like objects.
+ If no ``Content-Length`` nor ``Transfer-Encoding`` header field
has been provided, :class:`HTTPHandler` will set these headers according
to the type of *data*. ``Content-Length`` will be used to send
bytes objects, while ``Transfer-Encoding: chunked`` as specified in
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