How to stream POST data into Python requests?

Question

I\'m using the Python requests library to send a POST request. The part of the program that produces the POST data can write into an arbitrary

Answer 1

request does take an iterator or generator as data argument, the details are described in Chunk-Encoded Requests. The transfer encoding needs to be chunked in this case because the data size is not known beforehand.

Here is a very simle example that uses a queue.Queue and can be used as a file-like object for writing:

import requests
import queue
import threading

class WriteableQueue(queue.Queue):

    def write(self, data):
        # An empty string would be interpreted as EOF by the receiving server
        if data:
            self.put(data)

    def __iter__(self):
        return iter(self.get, None)

    def close(self):
        self.put(None)

# quesize can be limited in case producing is faster then streaming
q = WriteableQueue(100)

def post_request(iterable):
    r = requests.post("http://httpbin.org/post", data=iterable)
    print(r.text)

threading.Thread(target=post_request, args=(q,)).start()

# pass the queue to the serializer that writes to it ...    
q.write(b'1...')
q.write(b'2...')

# closing ends the request
q.close()