diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
index 3e0a107da11..f0297a55370 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urllib2.py
@@ -1220,7 +1220,6 @@ class RequestTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.get.add_data("spam")
         self.assertTrue(self.get.has_data())
         self.assertEqual("POST", self.get.get_method())
-        self.assertRaises(TypeError,self.get.add_data, "more spam")
 
     def test_get_full_url(self):
         self.assertEqual("http://www.python.org/~jeremy/",
diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 47fe75e7cf1..d1d12e65695 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -192,9 +192,6 @@ class Request:
     # Begin deprecated methods
 
     def add_data(self, data):
-        if self.has_data():
-            raise TypeError("Request Obj already contains data: %s" %
-                            self.data)
         self.data = data
 
     def has_data(self):