urllib.urlopen unwanted password prompts - documentation problem

If you try to open a password protected page with urllib.urlopen(), you get Enter username for EnterPassword at example.com: on standard output, followed by a read for input! This seems to be an undocumented feature, if not a bug. Definitely the documentation for urllib should

Re: urllib.urlopen unwanted password prompts - documentation problem

John Nagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you try to open a password protected page with urllib.urlopen(), you get Enter username for EnterPassword at example.com: on standard output, followed by a read for input! This seems to be an undocumented feature, if not a bug.