def test_iter_content(self): r = HttpResponse(['abc', 'def', 'ghi']) self.assertEqual(r.content, b'abcdefghi') #test iter content via property r = HttpResponse() r.content = ['idan', 'alex', 'jacob'] self.assertEqual(r.content, b'idanalexjacob') r = HttpResponse() r.content = [1, 2, 3] self.assertEqual(r.content, b'123') #test retrieval explicitly using iter and odd inputs r = HttpResponse() r.content = ['1', '2', 3, '\u079e'] my_iter = r.__iter__() result = list(my_iter) #'\xde\x9e' == unichr(1950).encode('utf-8') self.assertEqual(result, [b'1', b'2', b'3', b'\xde\x9e']) self.assertEqual(r.content, b'123\xde\x9e') #with Content-Encoding header r = HttpResponse([1,1,2,4,8]) r['Content-Encoding'] = 'winning' self.assertEqual(r.content, b'11248') r.content = ['\u079e',] self.assertRaises(UnicodeEncodeError, getattr, r, 'content')