ftplib documentation does not document what the acct parameter is used for

[tarjei]

BPO	6756
Nosy	@birkenfeld

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[tarjei]

Check:
http://docs.python.org/library/ftplib.html

The ftplib package does not document what the acct parameter is and how
it should be used.

Also: few methods document their return values of exceptions they raise.

[birkenfeld]

Thanks, fixed in r74652.