From 12187155b4e4939165a2dcda9f6c35b5a8f71046 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenneth Reitz Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 01:38:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] urllib2 --- docs/index.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 960f6b36..c270663b 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Release v\ |version|. (:ref:`Installation `) Requests is an :ref:`ISC Licensed ` HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings. Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbose -and cumbersome. Python's builtin :py:module::urllib2 module provides most of +and cumbersome. Python's builtin **urllib2** module provides most of the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the api is thoroughly **broken**. It requires an *enormous* amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks.