From 00483b63e6c79263b7eece290793bcb0c17eba84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 10:49:33 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] http.client.HTTPConnection.request accepts str as the body
 (#9322)

See code around https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/ab02262cd0385a2fb5eb8a6ee3cedd4b4bb969f3/Lib/http/client.py#L1328
---
 stdlib/http/client.pyi | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/stdlib/http/client.pyi b/stdlib/http/client.pyi
index ad794ed9b..53cefc0a3 100644
--- a/stdlib/http/client.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/http/client.pyi
@@ -154,7 +154,13 @@ class HTTPConnection:
         blocksize: int = ...,
     ) -> None: ...
     def request(
-        self, method: str, url: str, body: _DataType | None = ..., headers: Mapping[str, str] = ..., *, encode_chunked: bool = ...
+        self,
+        method: str,
+        url: str,
+        body: _DataType | str | None = ...,
+        headers: Mapping[str, str] = ...,
+        *,
+        encode_chunked: bool = ...,
     ) -> None: ...
     def getresponse(self) -> HTTPResponse: ...
     def set_debuglevel(self, level: int) -> None: ...