Issue3243 - Support iterable bodies in httplib. Patch contributions by Xuanji Li and Chris AtLee.
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index fe66a67..732c112 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@
import socket
import sys
import time
+import collections
from urllib.error import URLError, HTTPError, ContentTooShortError
from urllib.parse import (
@@ -1053,8 +1054,17 @@
'Content-type',
'application/x-www-form-urlencoded')
if not request.has_header('Content-length'):
- request.add_unredirected_header(
- 'Content-length', '%d' % len(data))
+ try:
+ mv = memoryview(data)
+ except TypeError:
+ print(data)
+ if isinstance(data, collections.Iterable):
+ raise ValueError("Content-Length should be specified \
+ for iterable data of type %r %r" % (type(data),
+ data))
+ else:
+ request.add_unredirected_header(
+ 'Content-length', '%d' % len(mv) * mv.itemsize)
sel_host = host
if request.has_proxy():