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authorSenthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com>2010-02-26 00:49:45 +0000
committerSenthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com>2010-02-26 00:49:45 +0000
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Merged revisions 78457 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r78457 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-02-26 06:17:05 +0530 (Fri, 26 Feb 2010) | 3 lines Fixing issue5475 : urllib2.getproxies not documented ........
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@@ -265,6 +265,15 @@ Utility functions
to decode *path*.
+.. function:: getproxies()
+
+ This helper function returns a dictionary of scheme to proxy server URL
+ mappings. It scans the environment for variables named ``<scheme>_proxy``
+ for all operating systems first, and when it cannot find it, looks for proxy
+ information from Mac OSX System Configuration for Mac OS X and Windows
+ Systems Registry for Windows.
+
+
URL Opener objects
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