[3.12] GH-115577 Clarify netloc term usage in urllib.parse docs (GH-117632) (GH-118656)

miss-islington · Privat33r-dev · web-flow · commit 11888a8694b4 · 2024-05-06T17:01:50.000Z
(cherry picked from commit 3ed3bc3) Co-authored-by: Kerim Kabirov <the.privat33r+gh@pm.me>
diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ The :mod:`urllib.parse` module defines functions that fall into two broad
 categories: URL parsing and URL quoting. These are covered in detail in
 the following sections.
 
+This module's functions use the deprecated term ``netloc`` (or ``net_loc``),
+which was introduced in :rfc:`1808`. However, this term has been obsoleted by
+:rfc:`3986`, which introduced the term ``authority`` as its replacement.
+The use of ``netloc`` is continued for backward compatibility.
+
 URL Parsing
 -----------
 
