Update URLs in comments and metadata to use HTTPS (GH-27458)

Author: coderanger

Doc/conf.py

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
 
 # Custom sidebar templates, filenames relative to this file.
 html_sidebars = {
-    # Defaults taken from http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/config.html#confval-html_sidebars
+    # Defaults taken from https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#confval-html_sidebars
     # Removes the quick search block
     '**': ['localtoc.html', 'relations.html', 'customsourcelink.html'],
     'index': ['indexsidebar.html'],

Doc/library/ast.rst

@@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ Function and class definitions
    * ``bases`` is a list of nodes for explicitly specified base classes.
    * ``keywords`` is a list of :class:`keyword` nodes, principally for 'metaclass'.
      Other keywords will be passed to the metaclass, as per `PEP-3115
-     <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3115/>`_.
+     <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3115/>`_.
    * ``starargs`` and ``kwargs`` are each a single node, as in a function call.
      starargs will be expanded to join the list of base classes, and kwargs will
      be passed to the metaclass.

Doc/library/contextlib.rst

@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Functions and classes provided:
       from contextlib import closing
       from urllib.request import urlopen
 
-      with closing(urlopen('http://www.python.org')) as page:
+      with closing(urlopen('https://www.python.org')) as page:
           for line in page:
               print(line)
 

Doc/library/functools.rst

@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ The :mod:`functools` module defines the following functions:
         @lru_cache(maxsize=32)
         def get_pep(num):
             'Retrieve text of a Python Enhancement Proposal'
-            resource = 'http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-%04d/' % num
+            resource = 'https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-%04d/' % num
             try:
                 with urllib.request.urlopen(resource) as s:
                     return s.read()

Doc/library/re.rst

@@ -931,8 +931,8 @@ form.
    This is useful if you want to match an arbitrary literal string that may
    have regular expression metacharacters in it.  For example::
 
-      >>> print(re.escape('http://www.python.org'))
-      http://www\.python\.org
+      >>> print(re.escape('https://www.python.org'))
+      https://www\.python\.org
 
       >>> legal_chars = string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits + "!#$%&'*+-.^_`|~:"
       >>> print('[%s]+' % re.escape(legal_chars))

Doc/library/webbrowser.rst

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ parameters: ``-n`` opens the URL in a new browser window, if possible;
 ``-t`` opens the URL in a new browser page ("tab"). The options are,
 naturally, mutually exclusive.  Usage example::
 
-   python -m webbrowser -t "http://www.python.org"
+   python -m webbrowser -t "https://www.python.org"
 
 The following exception is defined:
 
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Notes:
 
 Here are some simple examples::
 
-   url = 'http://docs.python.org/'
+   url = 'https://docs.python.org/'
 
    # Open URL in a new tab, if a browser window is already open.
    webbrowser.open_new_tab(url)

Lib/ctypes/test/test_functions.py

@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ class S8I(Structure):
                 (9*2, 8*3, 7*4, 6*5, 5*6, 4*7, 3*8, 2*9))
 
     def test_sf1651235(self):
-        # see http://www.python.org/sf/1651235
+        # see https://www.python.org/sf/1651235
 
         proto = CFUNCTYPE(c_int, RECT, POINT)
         def callback(*args):

Lib/ctypes/test/test_loading.py

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ def test_1703286_A(self):
         # NOT fit into a 32-bit integer.  FreeLibrary must be able
         # to accept this address.
 
-        # These are tests for http://www.python.org/sf/1703286
+        # These are tests for https://www.python.org/sf/1703286
         handle = LoadLibrary("advapi32")
         FreeLibrary(handle)
 

Lib/distutils/README

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ This directory contains the Distutils package.
 
 There's a full documentation available at:
 
-    http://docs.python.org/distutils/
+    https://docs.python.org/distutils/
 
 The Distutils-SIG web page is also a good starting point:
 
-    http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/
+    https://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/
 
 $Id$

Lib/functools.py

@@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ def lru_cache(maxsize=128, typed=False):
     with f.cache_info().  Clear the cache and statistics with f.cache_clear().
     Access the underlying function with f.__wrapped__.
 
-    See:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_replacement_policies#Least_recently_used_(LRU)
+    See:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_replacement_policies#Least_recently_used_(LRU)
 
     """
 
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ def cache(user_function, /):
 def _c3_merge(sequences):
     """Merges MROs in *sequences* to a single MRO using the C3 algorithm.
 
-    Adapted from http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.3/mro/.
+    Adapted from https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.3/mro/.
 
     """
     result = []