urllib2 file upload error

[Denis S. Otkidach]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:45:50 +1200 Thomas wrote:

T> d = [ ('cmd', 'add-item'),
T>       ('protocol_version', '2.1'),
T>       ('userfile', open(FILE)),
T>     ]
T> req = urllib2.Request(URL, d)
[...]
T> TypeError: sendall() argument 1 must be string or read-only buffer,
T> not list

Exactly as error message states: the second argument to Request must be
string, not list.  You have to encode the body manually.

T> Tried the script from
T> http://fabien.seisen.org/python/urllib2_multipart.html
T> also
T> Getting similar error..

Are you sure you imported urllib2_file?

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Denis S. Otkidach
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