Python error: TypeError: POST data should be bytes

Question

In my below code I am getting an error "raise TypeError("POST data should be bytes" TypeError: POST data should be bytes or an iterable of bytes. It cannot be str."

What am I doing wrong ? I am using python 3.2.2

Below is the code:

msg = "Test post"
password_manager = urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgr()
password_manager.add_password("Twitter API",
"http://twitter.com/statuses", "sampleusername", "password")
http_handler = urllib.request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(password_manager)
page_opener = urllib.request.build_opener(http_handler)
urllib.request.install_opener(page_opener)
params = urllib.parse.urlencode( {'status':msg} )
resp = urllib.request.urlopen("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json", params)
resp.read()

I was lukcy all I had to do was input params = params.encode('utf-8') now I have a new problem urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized I am sure my username and password is right so what might be going wrong ? — Vishal Khialani
– Vishal Khialani, Commented Oct 4, 2011 at 14:08
Open another question for the authentication issue, and possibly mark Daniel's answer to close this question. — tzot
– tzot, Commented Oct 22, 2011 at 17:08

Daniel Roseman · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-04 14:02:38Z

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It means what it says - in Python 3, strings are unicode by default, but you can't post unicode: you have to use a bytestring.

This should work:

msg = b"Test post"

answered Oct 4, 2011 at 14:02

Daniel Roseman

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