whatsnew: HTTPError.headers (#15701).

diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.error.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.error.rst
index 9fb58f5083587864030c0fd2a6cc8657e685cc07..f7f0c9739d8c93a44bb60f5b38aa50f3ecf05e70 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.error.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.error.rst
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The following exceptions are raised by :mod:`urllib.error` as appropriate:
 
    .. attribute:: headers
 
-      The HTTP response headers for the HTTP request that cause the
+      The HTTP response headers for the HTTP request that caused the
       :exc:`HTTPError`.
 
       .. versionadded:: 3.4

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 852135347f00fb98c5e6d0b7bb18b8335442be6b..564496696093c298297748b8ae85a99151b94dc9 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1627,6 +1627,11 @@ headers from a :class:`~urllib.request.Request`.  (Contributed by Alexey
 Kachayev in :issue:`16464`, Daniel Wozniak in :issue:`17485`, and Damien Brecht
 and Senthil Kumaran in :issue:`17272`.)
 
+:class:`~urllib.error.HTTPError` objects now have a
+:attr:`~urllib.error.HTTPError.headers` attribute that provides access to the
+HTTP response headers associated with the error.  (Contributed by
+Berker Peksag in :issue:`15701`.)
+
 
 unittest
 --------