The httplib.HTTPMessage class needs documentation; it is missing from
the package documentation entirely. Instances of this class are e.g.
returned by the urllib.urlopen().info() method.

This is still not fixed. Also, it would be nice to add the response code in somewhere as I don't see it in the stdlib epydoc pages

Fixed in r82322 and r82323.

Actually urllib.urlopen.info method return a mimetools.Message instance and a HTTPMessage instance is used within httplib only. It is more internal purposes to deal with headers with add_continue like methods is required.

ipatrol, the return codes of HTTP is documented in the httplib documentation.

What about urllib2? It's explicitly mentioned as the return value of .info()

That was a Documentation mistake. Thanks for pointing out.
Corrected it in revision 82334 and merged to other branches.

> Actually urllib.urlopen.info method return a mimetools.Message instance

But the urllib.rst documentation is still flawed:

"The :meth:`info` method returns an instance of the class :class:`httplib.HTTPMessage`"

(http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Doc/library/urllib.rst?revision=81775&view=markup)

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:51:58PM +0000, ThomasH wrote:
> But the urllib.rst documentation is still flawed:

Fixed now in the r82363. Did a find and grep on all instances of
HTTPMessage and verified that it is only at proper places now.

Thanks for pointing out.