Look for params values that have an .items method

3 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/news.txt b/docs/news.txt
index a7130e1..03302fd 100644
--- a/docs/news.txt
+++ b/docs/news.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ svn trunk
 * Make `paste.cascade` notice sockets that have stopped producing
   data.  From Casey Zednick.
 
+* In ``paste.fixture.TestApp`` Accept MultiDict values for the
+  ``params`` argument in requests.  (Anything with a ``.items()``
+  method will have its items encoded as the request parameters.)
+
 1.6.1
 -----
 
diff --git a/paste/fixture.py b/paste/fixture.py
index 25d0c07..01ffc08 100644
--- a/paste/fixture.py
+++ b/paste/fixture.py
@@ -221,6 +221,9 @@ class TestApp(object):
         # @@: Should this be all non-strings?
         if isinstance(params, (list, tuple, dict)):
             params = urllib.urlencode(params)
+        if hasattr(params, 'items'):
+            # Some other multi-dict like format
+            params = urllib.urlencode(params.items())
         if upload_files:
             params = cgi.parse_qsl(params, keep_blank_values=True)
             content_type, params = self.encode_multipart(
diff --git a/tests/test_fixture.py b/tests/test_fixture.py
index 576d375..310a332 100644
--- a/tests/test_fixture.py
+++ b/tests/test_fixture.py
@@ -12,4 +12,7 @@ def test_fixture():
     res = app.delete('/')
     assert (res.request.environ['REQUEST_METHOD'] ==
             'DELETE')
-    
+    class FakeDict(object):
+        def items(self):
+            return [('a', '10'), ('a', '20')]
+    res = app.post('/params', params=FakeDict())