Reverting the change made in r78431.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index ef59cfa..c0366dd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -1209,7 +1209,6 @@
self.get.add_data("spam")
self.assertTrue(self.get.has_data())
self.assertEqual("POST", self.get.get_method())
- self.assertRaises(TypeError,self.get.add_data, "more spam")
def test_get_full_url(self):
self.assertEqual("http://www.python.org/~jeremy/",
diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index 8b26971..122f777 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -226,9 +226,6 @@
# 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):