Add docstring to _fetch_http

[python-simplemediawiki.debian] / simplemediawiki.py

diff --git a/simplemediawiki.py b/simplemediawiki.py
index e123a5b5295a07d9e81e56a8cbc59736a3a4f99c..2934ab9d96d071ad89c297dc4ac1b24a98ed706f 100644 (file)
--- a/simplemediawiki.py
+++ b/simplemediawiki.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ of namespaces are provided for your convenience.
 
 import cookielib
 import gzip
-import iso8601.iso8601 as iso8601
+import iso8601
 import json
 from StringIO import StringIO
 import urllib
@@ -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)