[NOTE: the original bug doesn't exist in py3k but this adds Kirk's tests and fixes

another bug in the process]


Merged revisions 75134 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk

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  r75134 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-09-29 19:48:18 +0200 (mar., 29 sept. 2009) | 4 lines

  Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to
  `httplib.HTTPConnection.send`. Patch by Kirk McDonald.
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Lib/http/client.py

@@ -726,7 +726,14 @@ class HTTPConnection:
             if self.debuglevel > 0:
                 print("sendIng a read()able")
             encode = False
-            if "b" not in str.mode:
+            try:
+                mode = str.mode
+            except AttributeError:
+                # io.BytesIO and other file-like objects don't have a `mode`
+                # attribute.
+                pass
+            else:
+                if "b" not in mode:
                     encode = True
                     if self.debuglevel > 0:
                         print("encoding file using iso-8859-1")

Lib/test/test_httplib.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import errno
 from http import client
 import io
+import array
 import socket
 
 from unittest import TestCase
@@ -174,6 +175,20 @@ class BasicTest(TestCase):
         self.assertTrue(sock.data.startswith(expected), '%r != %r' %
                 (sock.data[:len(expected)], expected))
 
+    def test_send(self):
+        expected = b'this is a test this is only a test'
+        conn = client.HTTPConnection('example.com')
+        sock = FakeSocket(None)
+        conn.sock = sock
+        conn.send(expected)
+        self.assertEquals(expected, sock.data)
+        sock.data = b''
+        conn.send(array.array('b', expected))
+        self.assertEquals(expected, sock.data)
+        sock.data = b''
+        conn.send(io.BytesIO(expected))
+        self.assertEquals(expected, sock.data)
+
     def test_chunked(self):
         chunked_start = (
             'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'

Misc/ACKS

@@ -481,6 +481,7 @@ Nick Mathewson
 Graham Matthews
 Dieter Maurer
 Arnaud Mazin
+Kirk McDonald
 Chris McDonough
 Greg McFarlane
 Alan McIntyre