Faffing

Author: barneygale

Doc/library/urllib.request.rst

@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions:
 
    The URL authority is discarded if it empty, ``localhost``, or the local
    hostname. Otherwise, if *resolve_netloc* is set to true, the authority is
-   resolved using :func:`socket.gethostbyname`, and discarded if it matches a
+   resolved using :func:`socket.gethostbyname` and discarded if it matches a
    local IP address. If the authority is still unhandled, then on Windows a
    UNC path is returned, and on other platforms a
    :exc:`~urllib.error.URLError` is raised.

Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst

@@ -1230,7 +1230,7 @@ urllib
 
   - Accept a complete URL when the new *require_scheme* argument is set to
     true.
-  - Discard URL authority if it matches the current hostname.
+  - Discard URL authority if it matches the local hostname.
   - Discard URL authority if it resolves to a local IP address when the new
     *resolve_netloc* argument is set to true.
   - Raise :exc:`~urllib.error.URLError` if a URL authority isn't local,