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-rw-r--r--docs/api-guide/views.md6
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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/responses.md b/docs/api-guide/responses.md
index 724428f8..b5ad843b 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/responses.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/responses.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ The `Response` class extends `SimpleTemplateResponse`, and all the usual methods
## .data
-The unrendered content of a `Request` object can be accessed using the `.data` attribute.
+The unrendered content of a `Request` object.
## .status_code
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ The numeric status code of the HTTP response.
## .content
-The rendered content of the response. `.render()` must have been called before `.content` can be accessed.
+The rendered content of the response. The `.render()` method must have been called before `.content` can be accessed.
## .template_name
diff --git a/docs/api-guide/views.md b/docs/api-guide/views.md
index a615026f..cbfa2e28 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/views.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/views.md
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ The following methods are called before dispatching to the handler method.
The following methods are called directly by the view's `.dispatch()` method.
These perform any actions that need to occur before or after calling the handler methods such as `.get()`, `.post()`, `put()` and `.delete()`.
-### .initial(self, request, *args, **kwargs)
+### .initial(self, request, \*args, **kwargs)
Performs any actions that need to occur before the handler method gets called.
This method is used to enforce permissions and throttling, and perform content negotiation.
@@ -98,13 +98,13 @@ The default implementation handles any subclass of `rest_framework.exceptions.AP
If you need to customize the error responses your API returns you should subclass this method.
-### .initialize_request(self, request, *args, **kwargs)
+### .initialize_request(self, request, \*args, **kwargs)
Ensures that the request object that is passed to the handler method is an instance of `Request`, rather than the usual Django `HttpRequest`.
You won't typically need to override this method.
-### .finalize_response(self, request, response, *args, **kwargs)
+### .finalize_response(self, request, response, \*args, **kwargs)
Ensures that any `Response` object returned from the handler method will be rendered into the correct content type, as determined by the content negotation.