[3.12] gh-97590: Update docs and tests for ftplib.FTP.voidcmd() (GH-96825) (GH-115601)

Since 2f3941d743481ac48628b8b2c075f2b82762050b this function returns the
response string, rather than nothing.
(cherry picked from commit e88ebc1c4028cf2f0db43659e513440257eaec01)

Co-authored-by: Matthew Hughes <34972397+matthewhughes934@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/ftplib.rst b/Doc/library/ftplib.rst
index 9abf7974d1936db8082c2c979e7c1fd1c44309eb..8d1aae018ada121c605770032e401132b3619dcd 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/ftplib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ftplib.rst
@@ -232,8 +232,8 @@ FTP objects
    .. method:: FTP.voidcmd(cmd)
 
       Send a simple command string to the server and handle the response.  Return
-      nothing if a response code corresponding to success (codes in the range
-      200--299) is received.  Raise :exc:`error_reply` otherwise.
+      the response string if the response code corresponds to success (codes in
+      the range 200--299).  Raise :exc:`error_reply` otherwise.
 
       .. audit-event:: ftplib.sendcmd self,cmd ftplib.FTP.voidcmd
 

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ftplib.py b/Lib/test/test_ftplib.py
index 2f191ea7a44c1615123fe2db30f2fb78b0000f8d..4c4a4498d6fdd9582c0a417a085d754b66c3c06d 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_ftplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ftplib.py
@@ -542,8 +542,8 @@ class TestFTPClass(TestCase):
         self.assertFalse(self.client.passiveserver)
 
     def test_voidcmd(self):
-        self.client.voidcmd('echo 200')
-        self.client.voidcmd('echo 299')
+        self.assertEqual(self.client.voidcmd('echo 200'), '200')
+        self.assertEqual(self.client.voidcmd('echo 299'), '299')
         self.assertRaises(ftplib.error_reply, self.client.voidcmd, 'echo 199')
         self.assertRaises(ftplib.error_reply, self.client.voidcmd, 'echo 300')