POST XML file with requests

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I'm getting: ``` You have an error in your XML syntax... ``` when I run this python script I just wrote (I'm a newbie) ``` import requests xml = """xxx.xml""" headers = {'Content-Type':'text/xml'} r = requests.post('https://example.com/serverxml.asp', data=xml) print (r.content); ``` Here is the content of the xxx.xml ``` 4.0 login xxxx xxxxx xxx@xyz.com 1 ``` I know that the xml is valid because I use the same xml for a perl script and the contents are being printed back. Any help will greatly appreciated as I am very new to python.

Accepted Answer

You want to give the XML data from a file to `requests.post`. But, this function will not open a file for you. It expects you to pass a file object to it, not a file name. You need to open the file before you call requests.post.

Try this:

```
import requests

# Set the name of the XML file.
xml_file = "xxx.xml"

headers = {'Content-Type':'text/xml'}

# Open the XML file.
with open(xml_file) as xml:
    # Give the object representing the XML file to requests.post.
    r = requests.post('https://example.com/serverxml.asp', data=xml, headers=headers)

print (r.content);
```

POST XML file with requests

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