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  r75137 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-09-29 20:44:53 +0200 (mar., 29 sept. 2009) | 14 lines

  [NOTE: the original bug doesn't exist in py3k but this adds Kirk's tests and fixes
  another bug in the process]


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    r75134 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-09-29 19:48:18 +0200 (mar., 29 sept. 2009) | 4 lines

    Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
    `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
index 2d76f7a..37cda5d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httplib.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import errno
 from http import client
 import io
+import array
 import socket
 
 from unittest import TestCase
@@ -174,6 +175,20 @@
         self.assertTrue(sock.data.startswith(expected), '%r != %r' %
                 (sock.data[:len(expected)], expected))
 
+    def test_send(self):
+        expected = b'this is a test this is only a test'
+        conn = client.HTTPConnection('example.com')
+        sock = FakeSocket(None)
+        conn.sock = sock
+        conn.send(expected)
+        self.assertEquals(expected, sock.data)
+        sock.data = b''
+        conn.send(array.array('b', expected))
+        self.assertEquals(expected, sock.data)
+        sock.data = b''
+        conn.send(io.BytesIO(expected))
+        self.assertEquals(expected, sock.data)
+
     def test_chunked(self):
         chunked_start = (
             'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'