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authorJulien Palard <julien@palard.fr>2019-03-29 02:15:34 (GMT)
committerCarol Willing <carolcode@willingconsulting.com>2019-03-29 02:15:34 (GMT)
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bpo-36064: Clarify allowed data types for urllib.request.Request. (GH-11990)
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@@ -192,8 +192,8 @@ The following classes are provided:
*data* must be an object specifying additional data to send to the
server, or ``None`` if no such data is needed. Currently HTTP
requests are the only ones that use *data*. The supported object
- types include bytes, file-like objects, and iterables. If no
- ``Content-Length`` nor ``Transfer-Encoding`` header field
+ types include bytes, file-like objects, and iterables of bytes-like objects.
+ If no ``Content-Length`` nor ``Transfer-Encoding`` header field
has been provided, :class:`HTTPHandler` will set these headers according
to the type of *data*. ``Content-Length`` will be used to send
bytes objects, while ``Transfer-Encoding: chunked`` as specified in