From 9e30fbac019d9c0a31d444a711e845c7e883caf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julien Palard Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 03:15:34 +0100 Subject: bpo-36064: Clarify allowed data types for urllib.request.Request. (GH-11990) --- Doc/library/urllib.request.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst index 289bfca..f56da1b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.request.rst @@ -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 -- cgit v0.12