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Merge pull request #2572 from advarisk/warning-formrequest-from-response 

[MRG+1] document issue with FormRequest.from_response due to bug in lxml
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@ -376,6 +376,10 @@ fields with form data from :class:`Response` objects.
control clicked (instead of disabling it) you can also use the
``clickdata`` argument.
.. caution:: Using this method with select elements which have leading
or trailing whitespace in the option values will not work due to a
`bug in lxml`_, which should be fixed in lxml 3.8 and above.
:param response: the response containing a HTML form which will be used
to pre-populate the form fields
:type response: :class:`Response` object
@ -710,3 +714,4 @@ XmlResponse objects
line. See :attr:`TextResponse.encoding`.
.. _Twisted Failure: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.python.failure.Failure.html
.. _bug in lxml: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1665241