From: Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:33:25 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify the docs for the 'strict' argument to httplib.HTTPConnection.
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Clarify the docs for the 'strict' argument to httplib.HTTPConnection.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/httplib.rst b/Doc/library/httplib.rst
index 4c87d1738b0d..874fd54aeeb0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/httplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/httplib.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ The module provides the following classes:
    server.  It should be instantiated passing it a host and optional port
    number.  If no port number is passed, the port is extracted from the host
    string if it has the form ``host:port``, else the default HTTP port (80) is
-   used.  When True, the optional parameter *strict* causes ``BadStatusLine`` to
+   used.  When True, the optional parameter *strict* (which defaults to a false
+   value) causes ``BadStatusLine`` to
    be raised if the status line can't be parsed as a valid HTTP/1.0 or 1.1
    status line.  If the optional *timeout* parameter is given, blocking
    operations (like connection attempts) will timeout after that many seconds