Python request.post Not Accepting Dictionary

Question

here is the data that I want to post,

this is the printed version of the dictionary answers:

{'Emails': set([u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected] ', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected] ', u' [email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u"elberta.o'[email protected]", u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u' [email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'angelica.klocko@ankunding', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', None, u'[email protected] ', u'[email protected]']), '# of Emails per Domain': {u'@hotmail.com': 22, u'@yahoo.com': 18, u'@gmail.com': 18}, 'April Users': 70}

when I run:

 r = requests.post('https://9g9xhayrh5.execute-api.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/test/data', data = answers)

I get this error:

{"message": "Could not parse request body into json: Unrecognized token \'Emails\': was expecting (\'true\', \'false\' or \'null\')\n at [Source: [B@311a7237; line: 1, column: 8]"}

Not sure what this means at all, I've tried to parse the data into json, why doesn't it like the 'Email' string?

If I add the json.dump code I get:

TypeError

TypeError: set([u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected] ', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected] ', u' [email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u"elberta.o'[email protected]", u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u' [email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'angelica.klocko@ankunding', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', None, u'[email protected] ', u'[email protected]']) is not JSON serializable

Answer 1

This works:

import requests
import json
answers = {} #...
url = "..."
answers['Emails'] = list(answers['Emails'])
r = requests.post(url, data=json.dumps(answers))

The reason the other way doesn't work is that by default requests sends data with the Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded instead of JSON.

To change that, you can also use json instead of the data parameter:

r = requests.post(url, json=answers)

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To debug code using the requests library, you can look at a prepared request before sending it.