"""Encode multipart form data to upload files via POST.""" from __future__ import print_function import mimetypes import random import string _BOUNDARY_CHARS = string.digits + string.ascii_letters def encode_multipart(fields, files, boundary=None): r"""Encode dict of form fields and dict of files as multipart/form-data. Return tuple of (body_string, headers_dict). Each value in files is a dict with required keys 'filename' and 'content', and optional 'mimetype' (if not specified, tries to guess mime type or uses 'application/octet-stream'). >>> body, headers = encode_multipart({'FIELD': 'VALUE'}, ... {'FILE': {'filename': 'F.TXT', 'content': 'CONTENT'}}, ... boundary='BOUNDARY') >>> print('\n'.join(repr(l) for l in body.split('\r\n'))) '--BOUNDARY' 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="FIELD"' '' 'VALUE' '--BOUNDARY' 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="FILE"; filename="F.TXT"' 'Content-Type: text/plain' '' 'CONTENT' '--BOUNDARY--' '' >>> print(sorted(headers.items())) [('Content-Length', '193'), ('Content-Type', 'multipart/form-data; boundary=BOUNDARY')] >>> len(body) 193 """ def escape_quote(s): return s.replace('"', '\\"') if boundary is None: boundary = ''.join(random.choice(_BOUNDARY_CHARS) for i in range(30)) lines = [] for name, value in fields.items(): lines.extend(( '--{0}'.format(boundary), 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="{0}"'.format(escape_quote(name)), '', str(value), )) for name, value in files.items(): filename = value['filename'] if 'mimetype' in value: mimetype = value['mimetype'] else: mimetype = mimetypes.guess_type(filename)[0] or 'application/octet-stream' lines.extend(( '--{0}'.format(boundary), 'Content-Disposition: form-data; name="{0}"; filename="{1}"'.format( escape_quote(name), escape_quote(filename)), 'Content-Type: {0}'.format(mimetype), '', value['content'], )) lines.extend(( '--{0}--'.format(boundary), '', )) body = '\r\n'.join(lines) headers = { 'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data; boundary={0}'.format(boundary), 'Content-Length': str(len(body)), } return (body, headers) if __name__ == '__main__': import doctest doctest.testmod()