https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/bbd1f2f9e0354f91c5d3c4eb3eb53657265dcc77
commit: bbd1f2f9e0354f91c5d3c4eb3eb53657265dcc77
branch: main
author: Taeknology <[email protected]>
committer: orsenthil <[email protected]>
date: 2026-07-11T19:40:09Z
summary:

gh-102591: Document that urlcleanup resets the global opener (#153562)

Co-authored-by: Senthil Kumaran <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/urllib.request.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
index 03518d49d437ce..95e4d2627c8b23 100644
--- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
@@ -1486,7 +1486,8 @@ some point in the future.
 .. function:: urlcleanup()
 
    Cleans up temporary files that may have been left behind by previous
-   calls to :func:`urlretrieve`.
+   calls to :func:`urlretrieve`.  It also resets the default global opener
+   installed by :func:`install_opener`.
 
 
 :mod:`!urllib.request` Restrictions

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