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pycurl equivalent of "curl --data-binary"


I'd like to know the equivalent of this curl command in pycurl:

curl --data-binary @binary_data_file.bin 'http://server/myapp/method'

Note: The above curl statement uses the POST method. I need to use this for compatibility with my server script.


Solution

  • The requests library is meant to keep things like this simple:

    import requests
    r = requests.post('http://server/myapp/method', data={'aaa': 'bbb'})
    

    Or depending on how the receiving end expects data:

    import requests
    r = requests.post('http://server/myapp/method',
        data=file('binary_data_file.bin','rb').read())