This simplification should work.

Probably should write a test case where it should fail though.

diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 8e2e3353aa1decebbd9a4d8a9d08b3bac12e7eb4..379c26d0b978220bd85b8b7dbec3dbe8b2a3eac3 100644 (file)
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ class Request(object):
         try:
             fields = list(self.data.items())
         except AttributeError:
-            fields = list(dict(self.data).items())
+            fields = list(self.data)
 
         if isinstance(files, dict):
             files = files.items()