Cookie.domain is undocumented

[mhsmith]

BPO	23662
Nosy	@berkerpeksag, @vadmium, @demianbrecht, @mhsmith

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2016-04-25.11:35:20.114>
created_at = <Date 2015-03-14.15:01:20.241>
labels = ['easy', 'type-feature', 'docs']
title = 'Cookie.domain is undocumented'
updated_at = <Date 2016-04-25.11:35:20.112>
user = 'https://github.com/mhsmith'

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creator = 'Malcolm Smith'
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[mhsmith]

This is a fundamental attribute of a cookie, which will be set even if the server doesn't specify it, yet it doesn't appear in the documentation either of 2.x cookielib or 3.x http.cookiejar.

[python-dev]

New changeset 1fdaa71d47f5 by Berker Peksag in branch '3.5':
Issue bpo-23662: Document default value of RFC 2109 attributes
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1fdaa71d47f5

New changeset b3ad9c002bb8 by Berker Peksag in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-23662: Document default value of RFC 2109 attributes
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b3ad9c002bb8

[berkerpeksag]

Actually, it's already documented at https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/http.cookies.html#http.cookies.Morsel. I just added a note about the default value of domain.