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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index 724310b..2b98c83 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ when the Python installation supports SSL. :: >>> import urllib.request >>> req = urllib.request.Request(url='https://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi', - ... data='This data is passed to stdin of the CGI') + ... data=b'This data is passed to stdin of the CGI') >>> f = urllib.request.urlopen(req) >>> print(f.read().decode('utf-8')) Got Data: "This data is passed to stdin of the CGI" @@ -1043,11 +1043,13 @@ containing parameters:: >>> f = urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/query?%s" % params) >>> print(f.read().decode('utf-8')) -The following example uses the ``POST`` method instead:: +The following example uses the ``POST`` method instead. Note that params output +from urlencode is encoded to bytes before it is sent to urlopen as data:: >>> import urllib.request >>> import urllib.parse >>> params = urllib.parse.urlencode({'spam': 1, 'eggs': 2, 'bacon': 0}) + >>> params = params.encode('utf-8') >>> f = urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.musi-cal.com/cgi-bin/query", params) >>> print(f.read().decode('utf-8')) |