How to send a “multipart/form-data” with requests in python?

Question

How to send a multipart/form-data with requests in python? How to send a file, I understand, but how to send the form data by this method can not understand.

Answer 1

To clarify examples given above,

"You need to use the files parameter to send a multipart form POST request even when you do not need to upload any files."

files={}

won't work, unfortunately.

You will need to put some dummy values in, e.g.

files={"foo": "bar"}

I came up against this when trying to upload files to Bitbucket's REST API and had to write this abomination to avoid the dreaded "Unsupported Media Type" error:

url = "https://my-bitbucket.com/rest/api/latest/projects/FOO/repos/bar/browse/foobar.txt"
payload = {'branch': 'master', 
           'content': 'text that will appear in my file',
           'message': 'uploading directly from python'}
files = {"foo": "bar"}
response = requests.put(url, data=payload, files=files)

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