New submission from Chris AtLee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: httplib should support requests whose bodies are iterable objects. This would facilitate doing large file uploads via HTTP since you wouldn't have to load the entire file into memory to create the request string.
Index: Lib/httplib.py =================================================================== --- Lib/httplib.py (revision 64600) +++ Lib/httplib.py (working copy) @@ -688,7 +688,12 @@ self.__state = _CS_IDLE def send(self, str): - """Send `str' to the server.""" + """Send `str` to the server. + + ``str`` can be a string object, a file-like object that supports + a .read() method, or an iterable object that supports a .next() + method. + """ if self.sock is None: if self.auto_open: self.connect() @@ -710,6 +715,10 @@ while data: self.sock.sendall(data) data=str.read(blocksize) + elif hasattr(str,'next'): + if self.debuglevel > 0: print "sendIng an iterable" + for data in str: + self.sock.sendall(data) else: self.sock.sendall(str) except socket.error, v: ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 69014 nosy: catlee severity: normal status: open title: Support iterable bodies in httplib type: feature request versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3243> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com