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Diffstat (limited to 'netlib/multidict.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | netlib/multidict.py | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/netlib/multidict.py b/netlib/multidict.py index 32d5bfc2..a359d46b 100644 --- a/netlib/multidict.py +++ b/netlib/multidict.py @@ -35,12 +35,20 @@ class MultiDict(MutableMapping, Serializable): @staticmethod @abstractmethod def _reduce_values(values): - pass + """ + If a user accesses multidict["foo"], this method + reduces all values for "foo" to a single value that is returned. + For example, HTTP headers are folded, whereas we will just take + the first cookie we found with that name. + """ @staticmethod @abstractmethod - def _kconv(v): - pass + def _kconv(key): + """ + This method converts a key to its canonical representation. + For example, HTTP headers are case-insensitive, so this method returns key.lower(). + """ def __getitem__(self, key): values = self.get_all(key) |