Python requests module: urlencoding json data

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I'm working on an API wrapper. The spec I'm trying to build to has the following request in it: ``` curl -H "Content-type:application/json" -X POST -d data='{"name":"Partner13", "email":"example@example.com"}' http://localhost:5000/ ``` This request produces the following response from a little test server I setup to see exatly what headers/params etc are sent as. This little script produces: ``` uri: http://localhost:5000/, method: POST, api_key: None, content_type: application/json, params: None, data: data={"name":"Partner13", "email":"example@example.com"} ``` So that above is the result I want my python script to create when it hits the little test script. I'm using the python requests module, which is the most beautiful HTTP lib I have ever used. So here is my python code: ``` uri = "http://localhost:5000/" headers = {'content-type': 'application/json' } params = {} data = {"name":"Partner13", "email":"example@exmaple.com"} params["data"] = json.dumps(data) r = requests.post(uri…

Accepted Answer

When creating the object for the data keyword, simply assign a variable the result of json.dumps(data).

Also, because HTTP POST can accept both url parameters as well as data in the body of the request, and because the requests.post function has a keyword argument named "params", it might be better to use a different variable name for readability. The requests docs use the variable name "payload", so thats what I use.

```
data = {"name":"Partner13", "email":"example@exmaple.com"}
payload = json.dumps(data)
r = requests.post(uri, data=payload, headers=headers)
```

Python requests module: urlencoding json data

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