Uploading multiple files in a single request using python requests module

Question

The Python requests module provides good documentation on how to upload a single file in a single request:

 files = {'file': open('report.xls', 'rb')} 

I tried extending that example by using this code in an attempt to upload multiple files:

 files = {'file': [open('report.xls', 'rb'), open('report2.xls, 'rb')]} 

but it resulted in this error:

 File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib.py",      line 1052, in splittype  match = _typeprog.match(url)  TypeError: expected string or buffer 

Is it possible to upload a list of files in a single request using this module, and how?

Answer 1

To upload a list of files with the same key value in a single request, you can create a list of tuples with the first item in each tuple as the key value and the file object as the second:

files = [('file', open('report.xls', 'rb')), ('file', open('report2.xls', 'rb'))]