How to handle more complicated post requests in python/php?

Question

I have a python program which uses requests. I want to upload data via post request like this:

payload = (('key1', 'value1'), ('key1', 'value2'))
r = requests.post("https://www.example.com/test.php", payload)
print(r.text)

In php I receive this data for testing like this:

<?php
echo var_dump($_POST);?>

In the example of the doc ( http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#more-complicated-post-requests ) this:

print(r.text)

should be output this:

  "form": {
     "key1": [
       "value1",
       "value2"
     ]}

But in the output array value1 is missing:

    array(1) {
       ["key1"]=>
       string(6) "value2"}

Whats wrong here? Where is "value1"?

Answer 1

Try this as your payload in the python

 payload = {'key1', ['value1', 'value2']}

this will help your payload with the same key have two values.