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Refs #2333 - Made minor tweaks to the formatting of testing documentation. 

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@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ Creating an instance of ``Client`` (``django.test.client.Client``) requires
no arguments at time of construction. Once constructed, the following methods
can be invoked on the ``Client`` instance.
``get(path, data={}):``
``get(path, data={})``
Make a GET request on the provided ``path``. The key-value pairs in the
data dictionary will be used to create a GET data payload. For example::
@ -221,11 +221,11 @@ can be invoked on the ``Client`` instance.
http://yoursite.com/customers/details/?name='fred'&age=7
``post(path, data={}):``
``post(path, data={})``
Make a POST request on the provided ``path``. The key-value pairs in the
data dictionary will be used to create the POST data payload. This payload
will be transmitted with the mimetype ```multipart/form-data``.
will be transmitted with the mimetype ``multipart/form-data``.
However submitting files is a special case. To POST a file, you need only
provide the file field name as a key, and a file handle to the file you wish to
@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ can be invoked on the ``Client`` instance.
file name), and `attachment_file` (containing the file data). Note that you
need to manually close the file after it has been provided to the POST.
``login(path, username, password):``
``login(path, username, password)``
In a production site, it is likely that some views will be protected with
the @login_required URL provided by ``django.contrib.auth``. Interacting
@ -426,7 +426,6 @@ To assist in the creation of your own test runner, Django provides
a number of utility methods in the ``django.test.utils`` module.
``setup_test_environment()``
Performs any global pre-test setup, such as the installing the
instrumentation of the template rendering system.
@ -435,8 +434,7 @@ a number of utility methods in the ``django.test.utils`` module.
Performs any global post-test teardown, such as removing the instrumentation
of the template rendering system.
``create_test_db(verbosity=1, autoclobber=False)``:
``create_test_db(verbosity=1, autoclobber=False)``
Creates a new test database, and run ``syncdb`` against it.
``verbosity`` has the same behaviour as in the test runner.
@ -450,8 +448,7 @@ a number of utility methods in the ``django.test.utils`` module.
``create_test_db()`` has the side effect of modifying
``settings.DATABASE_NAME`` to match the name of the test database.
``destroy_test_db(old_database_name, verbosity=1)``:
``destroy_test_db(old_database_name, verbosity=1)``
Destroys the database with the name ``settings.DATABASE_NAME`` matching,
and restores the value of ``settings.DATABASE_NAME`` to the provided name.