handle gzip for python27. Fixes #789 (#793)

2018-05-18 13:52:37 -06:00
parent 15a4d7e2cc
commit 206e0d609c
1 changed files with 7 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -161,7 +161,13 @@ class Urllib3HttpConnection(Connection):
                request_headers = request_headers.copy()
                request_headers.update(headers)
            if self.http_compress and body:
-                body = gzip.compress(body)
+                try:
+                    body = gzip.compress(body)
+                except AttributeError:
+                    # oops, Python2.7 doesn't have `gzip.compress` let's try
+                    # again
+                    body = gzip.zlib.compress(body)
+
            response = self.pool.urlopen(method, url, body, retries=False, headers=request_headers, **kw)
            duration = time.time() - start
            raw_data = response.data.decode('utf-8')