bpo-29651 - Cover edge case of square brackets in urllib docs (#1128) (#1596)

orsenthil · web-flow · commit 75b8a54bcad7 · 2017-05-15T22:41:07.000-07:00
(cherry picked from commit f6e863d)
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ or on combining URL components into a URL string.
    an invalid port is specified in the URL.  See section
    :ref:`urlparse-result-object` for more information on the result object.
 
+   Unmatched square brackets in the :attr:`netloc` attribute will raise a
+   :exc:`ValueError`.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.2
       Added IPv6 URL parsing capabilities.
 
@@ -236,6 +239,9 @@ or on combining URL components into a URL string.
    an invalid port is specified in the URL.  See section
    :ref:`urlparse-result-object` for more information on the result object.
 
+   Unmatched square brackets in the :attr:`netloc` attribute will raise a
+   :exc:`ValueError`.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.6
       Out-of-range port numbers now raise :exc:`ValueError`, instead of
       returning :const:`None`.
