multipart/form-data encoding

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reading the referenced rfc2388.py file and the http_formdata.patch and Issue3244.patch attachments, then review dependency issue 3243 about iterable bodies in httplib. Done means establishing a current, reviewed approach for multipart/form-data encoding and validating it against the issue’s requirements.

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Description

stdlib topic-email type-feature
BPO 3244
Nosy @warsaw, @orsenthil, @pitrou, @catlee, @devdanzin, @merwok, @bitdancer, @vadmium
Dependencies
  • bpo-3243: Support iterable bodies in httplib
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    Files
  • rfc2388.py: Simple implementation of multipart/form-data.
  • http_formdata.patch: Patch against py3k implementing http.formdata
  • http_formdata.patch: New patch with module docstring.
  • http_formdata.patch: New patch
  • Issue3244.patch
    		•

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    GitHub fields:

    assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2008-06-30.18:04:19.325>
labels = ['easy', 'type-feature', 'expert-email']
title = 'multipart/form-data encoding'
updated_at = <Date 2016-08-14.07:37:52.023>
user = 'https://github.com/catlee'

    bugs.python.org fields:

    activity = <Date 2016-08-14.07:37:52.023>
actor = 'martin.panter'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['email']
creation = <Date 2008-06-30.18:04:19.325>
creator = 'catlee'
dependencies = ['3243']
files = ['17543', '17546', '17547', '17548', '26146']
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 3244
keywords = ['patch', 'easy']
message_count = 42.0
messages = ['69015', '76356', '76357', '81498', '93657', '93666', '97571', '107004', '107005', '107019', '107024', '107025', '107029', '107031', '107032', '107034', '107038', '107041', '107042', '107044', '107045', '107046', '107050', '107056', '107058', '108692', '128608', '128611', '128612', '128613', '128618', '128620', '128621', '141905', '141906', '161511', '161512', '161522', '161526', '163926', '163969', '272655']
nosy_count = 26.0
nosy_names = ['barry', 'guettli', 'orsenthil', 'pitrou', 'catlee', 'gotgenes', 'ajaksu2', 'jnoller', 'eric.araujo', 'forest_atq', 'fsteinel', 'r.david.murray', 'shazow', 'bgamari', 'daniel.ugra', 'alexz', 'tamentis', 'checat', 'catalin.iacob', 'Chris.Waigl', 'Johannes.Hoff', 'martin.panter', 'cco3', 'atommixz', 'piotr.dobrogost', 'raylu']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue3244'
versions = ['Python 3.4']

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