From 7dc4f4bbab494f8d9200678bc7df2de89079317c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jason R. Coombs" <jaraco@jaraco.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 12:47:07 -0400
Subject: Issue #18978: Allow Request.method to be defined at the class level.

---
 Lib/urllib/request.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Lib/urllib/request.py')

diff --git a/Lib/urllib/request.py b/Lib/urllib/request.py
index 4765a942886..049f48d5323 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py
@@ -271,7 +271,8 @@ class Request:
             origin_req_host = request_host(self)
         self.origin_req_host = origin_req_host
         self.unverifiable = unverifiable
-        self.method = method
+        if method:
+            self.method = method
 
     @property
     def full_url(self):
@@ -320,7 +321,7 @@ class Request:
 
     def get_method(self):
         """Return a string indicating the HTTP request method."""
-        if self.method is not None:
+        if getattr(self, 'method', None) is not None:
             return self.method
         elif self.data is not None:
             return "POST"
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