AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'items'
You are passing in a string; headers can't ever be a JSON encoded string, it is always a Python dictionary.
The print results are deceptive; JSON encoded objects look a lot like Python dictionary representations but they are far from the same thing.
The requests API clearly states that headers must be a dictionary:
headers– (optional) Dictionary of HTTP Headers to send with theRequest.
JSON data is something you'd send as content to another server, not something you'd use to communicate with a Python API.
I had this issue and I needed to make the header with a content type and pass in a data element as json.
import requestsimport jsonheaderInfo = {'content-type': 'application/json' }payload = {'text': 'okay!!!', 'auth_token': 'aasdasdasdasd'}jLoad = json.dumps(payload)r = requests.post('http://example.com:3030/widgets/init', headers=headerInfo, data=jLoad)print r.textprint r.status_code
You Can pass {
'Content-Type': 'application/json;charset=UTF-8'}it worked