--- /dev/null
+From bed00dea090ba51e33981e0b6784f23253d4f74a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ian Weller <ian@ianweller.org>
+Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:00:46 -0600
+Subject: Add docstring to _fetch_http
+
+---
+ simplemediawiki.py | 4 ++++
+ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/simplemediawiki.py b/simplemediawiki.py
+index f039c5a..2934ab9 100644
+--- a/simplemediawiki.py
++++ b/simplemediawiki.py
+@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ class MediaWiki():
+ self._opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', user_agent)]
+
+ def _fetch_http(self, url, params):
++ """
++ Standard HTTP request handler for this class with gzip and cookie
++ support.
++ """
+ request = urllib2.Request(url, urllib.urlencode(params))
+ request.add_header('Accept-encoding', 'gzip')
+ response = self._opener.open(request)
+--
+1.7.2.3
+