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diff --git a/docs/narr/webob.rst b/docs/narr/webob.rst index f0a4b5a0b..6a331e4bf 100644 --- a/docs/narr/webob.rst +++ b/docs/narr/webob.rst @@ -408,6 +408,8 @@ Here are some highlights: The content type *not* including the ``charset`` parameter. Typical use: ``response.content_type = 'text/html'``. + Default value: ``response.content_type = 'text/html'``. + ``response.charset``: The ``charset`` parameter of the content-type, it also informs encoding in ``response.unicode_body``. @@ -466,9 +468,12 @@ argument to the class; e.g.: from pyramid.response import Response response = Response(body='hello world!', content_type='text/plain') -The status defaults to ``'200 OK'``. The content_type does not default to -anything, though if you subclass :class:`pyramid.response.Response` and set -``default_content_type`` you can override this behavior. +The status defaults to ``'200 OK'``. + +The value of content_type defaults to +``webob.response.Response.default_content_type``; which is `text/html`. +You can subclass :class:`pyramid.response.Response` and set +``default_content_type`` to override this behavior. .. index:: single: exception responses |