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In a message of Mon, 21 Dec 2015 17:51:00 +0000, Grant Edwards writes:
>Is there a standard library function that can be used to encode data
>into multipart/form-data format?  IIRC, I looked for this once before
>and didn't find anything in the library. 
>
>[I don't want to actually send an HTTP POST or an email message, I
>just need to generate sets of data for test purposes.]
>
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Cannibalise this:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/146306/
which just uses standard library things.

Laura