Merge pull request #5142 from dullbananas/master

Improve docs

.gitignore

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ requests.egg-info/
 *.swp
 *.egg
 env/
+.eggs/
 
 .workon
 

AUTHORS.rst

@@ -189,3 +189,4 @@ Patches and Suggestions
 - Darren Dormer (`@ddormer <https://github.com/ddormer>`_)
 - Rajiv Mayani (`@mayani <https://github.com/mayani>`_)
 - Antti Kaihola (`@akaihola <https://github.com/akaihola>`_)
+- "Dull Bananas" <dull.bananas0@gmail.com> (`@dullbananas <https://github.com/dullbananas>`_)

docs/dev/contributing.rst

@@ -130,7 +130,14 @@ the Requests codebase::
     foo = long_function_name(var_one, var_two,
                              var_three, var_four)
 
-No. Just don't. Please.
+No. Just don't. Please. This is much better::
+
+    foo = long_function_name(
+        var_one,
+        var_two,
+        var_three,
+        var_four,
+    )
 
 Docstrings are to follow the following syntaxes::
 

requests/api.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from . import sessions
 def request(method, url, **kwargs):
     """Constructs and sends a :class:`Request <Request>`.
 
-    :param method: method for the new :class:`Request` object.
+    :param method: method for the new :class:`Request` object: ``GET``, ``OPTIONS`, ``HEAD``, ``POST``, ``PUT``, ``PATCH``, or ``DELETE``.
     :param url: URL for the new :class:`Request` object.
     :param params: (optional) Dictionary, list of tuples or bytes to send
         in the query string for the :class:`Request`.