Python requests, PUT empty data [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to use request to PUT some data as such,

r = requests.put(
        url,
        data={'tiles': []},
        headers={'x-auth-token': token}
    )

However, tiles is not sent if it is just an empty list. tiles only appears when the data is not empty. I checked this with http://httpbin.org/put also.

Does anyone have any ideas how to put empty data?

You mean 'tiles': []? Why are you setting it to an empty list? A list is seen as 0 or more values for the parameter, so 'tiles': ['foo', 'bar'] becomes tiles=foo and tiles=bar. — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented Aug 4, 2017 at 17:04

Shatnerz · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-04 17:00:15Z

4

Naturally I figured it out immediately after asking. I wanted to use json inplace of data.

r = requests.put(
        url,
        json={'tiles': []},
        headers={'x-auth-token': token}
    )

answered Aug 4, 2017 at 17:00

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Martijn Pieters Over a year ago

That's a very different datatype!

Engineero Over a year ago

Is it just me, or is this undocumented for requests.put()? I couldn't find anywhere in the documentation that you can pass a json= keyword argument in place of data=. This helped though, so thanks!

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