non-dictionary data in AsyncClient raises a weird exception

[johny-b]

This code:

import httpx
import asyncio


async def main():
    async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
        r = await client.post('https://www.example.com/', data=['x'])
    print(r)


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())

ends in

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "t1.py", line 12, in <module>
    loop.run_until_complete(main())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/asyncio/base_events.py", line 616, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
  File "t1.py", line 7, in main
    r = await client.post('https://www.example.com/', data=['x'])
    (..)
  File "/home/johnyb/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/httpx/_client.py", line 1671, in _send_single_request
    raise RuntimeError(
RuntimeError: Attempted to send an sync request with an AsyncClient instance.

I'm pretty sure this is not the best possible Exception to raise : )

[tomchristie]

I'm in complete agreement with you on that. What exception message would we ideally want to see instead?