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Fixed issue11082 - Reject str for POST data with a TypeError. Document the need to explicitly encode to bytes when using urlencode.

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Senthil Kumaran 2011-02-11 11:25:47 +00:00
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Doc/library/urllib.request.rst
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@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ when the Python installation supports SSL. ::
>>> import urllib.request
>>> req = urllib.request.Request(url='https://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi',
... data='This data is passed to stdin of the CGI')
... data=b'This data is passed to stdin of the CGI')
>>> f = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
>>> print(f.read().decode('utf-8'))
Got Data: "This data is passed to stdin of the CGI"
@ -1043,11 +1043,13 @@ containing parameters::
>>> f = urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/query?%s" % params)
>>> print(f.read().decode('utf-8'))
The following example uses the ``POST`` method instead::
The following example uses the ``POST`` method instead. Note that params output
from urlencode is encoded to bytes before it is sent to urlopen as data::
>>> import urllib.request
>>> import urllib.parse
>>> params = urllib.parse.urlencode({'spam': 1, 'eggs': 2, 'bacon': 0})
>>> params = params.encode('utf-8')
>>> f = urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/query", params)
>>> print(f.read().decode('utf-8'))