Clean up cookie docs and display them.

Author: Lukasa

docs/api.rst

@@ -88,6 +88,12 @@ Cookies
 .. autofunction:: requests.utils.cookiejar_from_dict
 .. autofunction:: requests.utils.add_dict_to_cookiejar
 
+.. autoclass:: requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar
+   :inherited-members:
+
+.. autoclass:: requests.cookies.CookieConflictError
+   :inherited-members:
+
 
 Encodings
 ~~~~~~~~~

requests/cookies.py

@@ -157,26 +157,28 @@ class CookieConflictError(RuntimeError):
 
 
 class RequestsCookieJar(cookielib.CookieJar, collections.MutableMapping):
-    """Compatibility class; is a cookielib.CookieJar, but exposes a dict interface.
+    """Compatibility class; is a cookielib.CookieJar, but exposes a dict
+    interface.
 
     This is the CookieJar we create by default for requests and sessions that
     don't specify one, since some clients may expect response.cookies and
     session.cookies to support dict operations.
 
-    Don't use the dict interface internally; it's just for compatibility with
-    with external client code. All `requests` code should work out of the box
-    with externally provided instances of CookieJar, e.g., LWPCookieJar and
-    FileCookieJar.
-
-    Caution: dictionary operations that are normally O(1) may be O(n).
+    Requests does not use the dict interface internally; it's just for
+    compatibility with external client code. All `requests` code should work
+    out of the box with externally provided instances of ``CookieJar``, e.g.
+    ``LWPCookieJar`` and ``FileCookieJar``.
 
     Unlike a regular CookieJar, this class is pickleable.
-    """
 
+    .. warning:: dictionary operations that are normally O(1) may be O(n).
+    """
     def get(self, name, default=None, domain=None, path=None):
         """Dict-like get() that also supports optional domain and path args in
         order to resolve naming collisions from using one cookie jar over
-        multiple domains. Caution: operation is O(n), not O(1)."""
+        multiple domains.
+
+        .. warning:: operation is O(n), not O(1)."""
         try:
             return self._find_no_duplicates(name, domain, path)
         except KeyError:
@@ -199,37 +201,38 @@ def set(self, name, value, **kwargs):
         return c
 
     def iterkeys(self):
-        """Dict-like iterkeys() that returns an iterator of names of cookies from the jar.
-        See itervalues() and iteritems()."""
+        """Dict-like iterkeys() that returns an iterator of names of cookies
+        from the jar. See itervalues() and iteritems()."""
         for cookie in iter(self):
             yield cookie.name
 
     def keys(self):
-        """Dict-like keys() that returns a list of names of cookies from the jar.
-        See values() and items()."""
+        """Dict-like keys() that returns a list of names of cookies from the
+        jar. See values() and items()."""
         return list(self.iterkeys())
 
     def itervalues(self):
-        """Dict-like itervalues() that returns an iterator of values of cookies from the jar.
-        See iterkeys() and iteritems()."""
+        """Dict-like itervalues() that returns an iterator of values of cookies
+        from the jar. See iterkeys() and iteritems()."""
         for cookie in iter(self):
             yield cookie.value
 
     def values(self):
-        """Dict-like values() that returns a list of values of cookies from the jar.
-        See keys() and items()."""
+        """Dict-like values() that returns a list of values of cookies from the
+        jar. See keys() and items()."""
         return list(self.itervalues())
 
     def iteritems(self):
-        """Dict-like iteritems() that returns an iterator of name-value tuples from the jar.
-        See iterkeys() and itervalues()."""
+        """Dict-like iteritems() that returns an iterator of name-value tuples
+        from the jar. See iterkeys() and itervalues()."""
         for cookie in iter(self):
             yield cookie.name, cookie.value
 
     def items(self):
-        """Dict-like items() that returns a list of name-value tuples from the jar.
-        See keys() and values(). Allows client-code to call "dict(RequestsCookieJar)
-        and get a vanilla python dict of key value pairs."""
+        """Dict-like items() that returns a list of name-value tuples from the
+        jar. See keys() and values(). Allows client-code to call
+        ``dict(RequestsCookieJar)`` and get a vanilla python dict of key value
+        pairs."""
         return list(self.iteritems())
 
     def list_domains(self):
@@ -259,8 +262,9 @@ def multiple_domains(self):
         return False  # there is only one domain in jar
 
     def get_dict(self, domain=None, path=None):
-        """Takes as an argument an optional domain and path and returns a plain old
-        Python dict of name-value pairs of cookies that meet the requirements."""
+        """Takes as an argument an optional domain and path and returns a plain
+        old Python dict of name-value pairs of cookies that meet the
+        requirements."""
         dictionary = {}
         for cookie in iter(self):
             if (domain is None or cookie.domain == domain) and (path is None
@@ -269,21 +273,23 @@ def get_dict(self, domain=None, path=None):
         return dictionary
 
     def __getitem__(self, name):
-        """Dict-like __getitem__() for compatibility with client code. Throws exception
-        if there are more than one cookie with name. In that case, use the more
-        explicit get() method instead. Caution: operation is O(n), not O(1)."""
+        """Dict-like __getitem__() for compatibility with client code. Throws
+        exception if there are more than one cookie with name. In that case,
+        use the more explicit get() method instead. Caution: operation is O(n),
+        not O(1)."""
 
         return self._find_no_duplicates(name)
 
     def __setitem__(self, name, value):
-        """Dict-like __setitem__ for compatibility with client code. Throws exception
-        if there is already a cookie of that name in the jar. In that case, use the more
-        explicit set() method instead."""
+        """Dict-like __setitem__ for compatibility with client code. Throws
+        exception if there is already a cookie of that name in the jar. In that
+        case, use the more explicit set() method instead."""
 
         self.set(name, value)
 
     def __delitem__(self, name):
-        """Deletes a cookie given a name. Wraps cookielib.CookieJar's remove_cookie_by_name()."""
+        """Deletes a cookie given a name. Wraps ``cookielib.CookieJar``'s
+        ``remove_cookie_by_name()``."""
         remove_cookie_by_name(self, name)
 
     def set_cookie(self, cookie, *args, **kwargs):
@@ -300,10 +306,11 @@ def update(self, other):
             super(RequestsCookieJar, self).update(other)
 
     def _find(self, name, domain=None, path=None):
-        """Requests uses this method internally to get cookie values. Takes as args name
-        and optional domain and path. Returns a cookie.value. If there are conflicting cookies,
-        _find arbitrarily chooses one. See _find_no_duplicates if you want an exception thrown
-        if there are conflicting cookies."""
+        """Requests uses this method internally to get cookie values. Takes as
+        args name and optional domain and path. Returns a cookie.value. If
+        there are conflicting cookies, _find arbitrarily chooses one. See
+        _find_no_duplicates if you want an exception thrown if there are
+        conflicting cookies."""
         for cookie in iter(self):
             if cookie.name == name:
                 if domain is None or cookie.domain == domain:
@@ -313,10 +320,11 @@ def _find(self, name, domain=None, path=None):
         raise KeyError('name=%r, domain=%r, path=%r' % (name, domain, path))
 
     def _find_no_duplicates(self, name, domain=None, path=None):
-        """__get_item__ and get call _find_no_duplicates -- never used in Requests internally.
-        Takes as args name and optional domain and path. Returns a cookie.value.
-        Throws KeyError if cookie is not found and CookieConflictError if there are
-        multiple cookies that match name and optionally domain and path."""
+        """__get_item__ and get call _find_no_duplicates -- never used in
+        Requests internally. Takes as args name and optional domain and path.
+        Returns a cookie.value. Throws KeyError if cookie is not found and
+        CookieConflictError if there are multiple cookies that match name and
+        optionally domain and path."""
         toReturn = None
         for cookie in iter(self):
             if cookie.name == name:
@@ -440,7 +448,7 @@ def merge_cookies(cookiejar, cookies):
     """
     if not isinstance(cookiejar, cookielib.CookieJar):
         raise ValueError('You can only merge into CookieJar')
-    
+
     if isinstance(cookies, dict):
         cookiejar = cookiejar_from_dict(
             cookies, cookiejar=cookiejar, overwrite=False)