How to POST an xml element in python

Question

Basically I have this xml element (xml.etree.ElementTree) and I want to POST it to a url. Currently I\'m doing something like

xml_string = xml.etree.ElementTree         


        

Answer 1

If this is your own API, I would consider POSTing as application/xml. The default is application/x-www-form-urlencoded, which is meant for HTML form data, not a single XML document.

req = urllib2.Request(url=url, 
                      data=xml_string, 
                      headers={'Content-Type': 'application/xml'})
urllib2.urlopen(req)