From: Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:40:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Doc fix for the issue2637.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~604
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=90161375c6c9274bca193a277882ebff27f4140c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Doc fix for the issue2637.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
index f6fe045e5542..90c0fa5dac9d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.rst
@@ -203,9 +203,10 @@ Utility functions
 .. function:: quote(string[, safe])
 
    Replace special characters in *string* using the ``%xx`` escape. Letters,
-   digits, and the characters ``'_.-'`` are never quoted. The optional *safe*
-   parameter specifies additional characters that should not be quoted --- its
-   default value is ``'/'``.
+   digits, and the characters ``'_.-'`` are never quoted. By default, this
+   function is intended for quoting the path section of the URL.The optional
+   *safe* parameter specifies additional characters that should not be quoted
+   --- its default value is ``'/'``.
 
    Example: ``quote('/~connolly/')`` yields ``'/%7econnolly/'``.