post() — requests Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the post() function in sessions.py from the requests codebase.

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Source Code

src/requests/sessions.py lines 627–638

    def post(self, url, data=None, json=None, **kwargs):
        r"""Sends a POST request. Returns :class:`Response` object.

        :param url: URL for the new :class:`Request` object.
        :param data: (optional) Dictionary, list of tuples, bytes, or file-like
            object to send in the body of the :class:`Request`.
        :param json: (optional) json to send in the body of the :class:`Request`.
        :param \*\*kwargs: Optional arguments that ``request`` takes.
        :rtype: requests.Response
        """

        return self.request("POST", url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)