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@@ -37,20 +37,20 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions:
* :meth:`geturl` --- return the URL of the resource retrieved, commonly used to
determine if a redirect was followed
- * :meth:`info` --- return the meta-information of the page, such as headers, in
- the form of an ``http.client.HTTPMessage`` instance
- (see `Quick Reference to HTTP Headers <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/http.html>`_)
+ * :meth:`info` --- return the meta-information of the page, such as headers,
+ in the form of an ``http.client.HTTPMessage`` instance (see `Quick
+ Reference to HTTP Headers <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/http.html>`_)
Raises :exc:`URLError` on errors.
- Note that ``None`` may be returned if no handler handles the request (though the
- default installed global :class:`OpenerDirector` uses :class:`UnknownHandler` to
- ensure this never happens).
- The urlopen function from the previous version, Python 2.6 and earlier, of
- the module urllib has been discontinued as urlopen can return the
- file-object as the previous. The proxy handling, which in earlier was passed
- as a dict parameter to urlopen can be availed by the use of
- :class:`ProxyHandler` objects.
+ Note that ``None`` may be returned if no handler handles the request (though
+ the default installed global :class:`OpenerDirector` uses
+ :class:`UnknownHandler` to ensure this never happens).
+
+ The legacy ``urllib.urlopen`` function from Python 2.6 and earlier has been
+ discontinued; :func:`urlopen` corresponds to the old ``urllib2.urlopen``.
+ Proxy handling, which was done by passing a dictionary parameter to
+ ``urllib.urlopen``, can be obtained by using :class:`ProxyHandler` objects.
.. function:: install_opener(opener)