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This function needs to send a JSON dict in python2.7 as a "file" using a post request but the script is running in a container and cannot write to disk.

The endpoint also cannot be changed to accept JSON, rather than a file, as its part of a larger project.

def _json_to_bucket(request_json, thing_id):
    import json
    import requests

    request_url = "https://backend.com/thing/{}".format(thing_id)

    data = {
        'name': 'thing-{}'.format(datetime.isoformat(datetime.now())),
        'url': '/thing_importer/',
        'files': [json.loads(request_json)]
    }
    requests.post(request_url, data=data)
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  • Welcome. It's not clear what are you trying to do. In your example data['files'] will contain list with single element which is object parsed from json string passed in request_json value. Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 16:51
  • Hello, sorry for making it not clear. if i used files: [open('test.json')] I think it would work. Normally I would save the dict "data" as a json file. Then open it using the example line. edit: hit enter by mistake my typing Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 18:11
  • You can use json.load(f) but how do you want to send this data to server? Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 18:13
  • (made an edit after your reply). So simply put how to I convert a python dict into a python file object without ever writing to a file? I have the dict and need to covert it to a file object that you would normally obtain from doing open('test.json', 'r') Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 18:19
  • Let's start from scratch. Why do you need that? Commented Jun 10, 2020 at 18:32
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