https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/996c00384d4a3d1157009f3f6aabe595df5a4170 commit: 996c00384d4a3d1157009f3f6aabe595df5a4170 branch: 3.14 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: zware <[email protected]> date: 2025-11-12T18:40:20Z summary:
[3.14] gh-141412: Use reliable target URL for urllib example (GH-141474) The endpoint used for demonstrating reading URLs is no longer stable. This change substitutes a target over which we have more control. (cherry picked from commit fbcac799518e0cb29fcf5f84ed1fa001010b9073) Co-authored-by: Bob Kline <[email protected]> files: M Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst index fc98ffaadeed88..163f3bdebd8546 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/stdlib.rst @@ -183,13 +183,13 @@ protocols. Two of the simplest are :mod:`urllib.request` for retrieving data from URLs and :mod:`smtplib` for sending mail:: >>> from urllib.request import urlopen - >>> with urlopen('http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/etc/UTC.txt') as response: + >>> with urlopen('https://docs.python.org/3/') as response: ... for line in response: ... line = line.decode() # Convert bytes to a str - ... if line.startswith('datetime'): + ... if 'updated' in line: ... print(line.rstrip()) # Remove trailing newline ... - datetime: 2022-01-01T01:36:47.689215+00:00 + Last updated on Nov 11, 2025 (20:11 UTC). >>> import smtplib >>> server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
