Post request and encoding

[Hernán De Angelis]

I see, my mistake was (tacitly) assuming that encode() could work in place.

Now I see that it should work in a previous line as you wrote.

Thank you!

/H.

On 2020-11-02 18:32, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 06:21:15PM +0100, Hernán De Angelis wrote:
>
> For the record:
>
>> Just reply to myself and whoever might find this useful.
>>
>> encode() must be done within the request call:
> Nope (but it can, as you showed).
>
>> header = {'Content-type':'application/xml', 'charset':'UTF-8'}
>> response = requests.post(server, data=request.encode('utf-8'),
>> headers=header)
>>
>> not in a previous separate line as I did.
> Your separate line was wrong as much as ayone can guess:
>
>>> I have tried of course adding
>>>
>>> request.encode('utf-8')
>>>
>>> before sending the request but it has not lead to a different result.
> You would have needed to do:
>
> request = request.encode('utf-8')
>
> because .encode() does not operate in-place.
>
> Karsten
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