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I got struck by the same feature. In addition, currently the docs are wrong in the examples (at http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/urllib.request.html#examples the output of f.read() is a string instead of bytes). There I propose the change from
>>> import urllib.request
>>> f = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.python.org/')
>>> print(f.read(100))
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<?xml-stylesheet href="./css/ht2html
to
>>> import urllib.request
>>> f = urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.python.org/')
>>> print(f.read(100).decode('utf-8'))
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtm
The other examples need to be corrected in a similar way.
Even more importantly, the "HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using The urllib Package" needs to be corrected too.
In the documentation of urllib.request.urlopen I propose to add a sentence (after the paragraph "This function returns a file-like object...") explaining that reading the object returns bytes that need to be decoded to a string:
"Note that the method read() returns bytes that need to be decoded to a string using decode()." |
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| 2010-04-15 12:17:47 | Danh | set | recipients:
+ Danh, georg.brandl, MLModel |
| 2010-04-15 12:17:47 | Danh | set | messageid: <1271333867.02.0.872606724516.issue5419@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
| 2010-04-15 12:17:45 | Danh | link | issue5419 messages |
| 2010-04-15 12:17:44 | Danh | create | |
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