[Python-checkins] r62465 - python/trunk/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst

Wed Apr 23 00:45:09 CEST 2008

Author: skip.montanaro
Date: Wed Apr 23 00:45:09 2008
New Revision: 62465
Log:
Factor in documentation changes from issue 1753732.
Modified:
 python/trunk/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst
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--- python/trunk/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst	Wed Apr 23 00:45:09 2008
@@ -121,6 +121,14 @@
 `XML-RPC Introspection <http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/introspection.html>`_
 Describes the XML-RPC protocol extension for introspection.
 
+ `XML-RPC Specification <http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec>`_
+ The official specification.
+
+ `Unofficial XML-RPC Errata <http://effbot.org/zone/xmlrpc-errata.htm>`_
+ Fredrik Lundh's "unofficial errata, intended to clarify certain
+ details in the XML-RPC specification, as well as hint at
+ 'best practices' to use when designing your own XML-RPC
+ implementations."
 
 .. _serverproxy-objects:
 
@@ -290,6 +298,11 @@
 
 Write the XML-RPC base 64 encoding of this binary item to the out stream object.
 
+ The encoded data will have newlines every 76 characters as per
+ `RFC 2045 section 6.8 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045#section-6.8>`_,
+ which was the de facto standard base64 specification when the
+ XML-RPC spec was written.
+
 It also supports certain of Python's built-in operators through a
 :meth:`__cmp__` method.
 
