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  r78431 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-02-25 02:25:31 +0530 (Thu, 25 Feb 2010) | 4 lines

  Fix for Issue7540 ; urllib2 will raise a TypeError when you try to add_data to
  a existing req object already having data.
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diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index b416913..9372269 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -226,6 +226,9 @@
     # XXX these helper methods are lame
 
     def add_data(self, data):
+        if self.has_data():
+            raise TypeError("Request Obj already contains data: %s" %
+                            self.data)
         self.data = data
 
     def has_data(self):