Raising incorrect error when passing array to data

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httpx Version: 0.28.1

import asyncio, httpx

async def test():
    sync_client = httpx.Client(base_url="https://httpbin.org")
    async_client = httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://httpbin.org")

    try:
        response = await async_client.request("POST", "/post", data=[{"a": "b"}])
        print(response)
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)

    try:    
        response = sync_client.request("POST", "/post", data=[{"a": "b"}])
        print(response)
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)


asyncio.run(test())

Attempted to send an sync request with an AsyncClient instance.
sequence item 1: expected a bytes-like object, dict found

In data, judging by the code sources, you can only pass strings, dictionaries, or bytes (+= arrays of bytes). If you pass any array other than a byte array to data, it will raise an incorrect error: Attempted to send a sync request with an AsyncClient instance. (We're using an asynchronous client to send an asynchronous request, mhm)
Honestly, I'm too lazy to look through the sources and figure out what went wrong, but in general, it should return the same error as it does with a synchronous client - sequence item 1: expected a bytes-like object, dict found.

[bagowix]

Hi!
I have not been able to replicate this error, it currently returns “Use ‘content=<...>’ to upload raw bytes/text content.”

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I just created a venv, installed httpx, and got the same exceptions as mentioned above. Also tried with python 3.12.8 but got same result

There is some data and traceback

Win11 24h2
(.venv) PS D:\Google Drive Files\Projects\!CurrentWork\httpx.test> pip freeze

anyio==4.8.0
certifi==2024.12.14
h11==0.14.0
httpcore==1.0.7
httpx==0.28.1
idna==3.10
sniffio==1.3.1
typing_extensions==4.12.2

(.venv) PS D:\Google Drive Files\Projects\!CurrentWork\httpx.test> python -V

Python 3.11.5

(.venv) PS D:\Google Drive Files\Projects\!CurrentWork\httpx.test> python .\test.py

Attempted to send an sync request with an AsyncClient instance.
sequence item 1: expected a bytes-like object, dict found

(.venv) PS D:\Google Drive Files\Projects\!CurrentWork\httpx.test> cat .\test.py

import asyncio, httpx

async def test():
    sync_client = httpx.Client(base_url="https://httpbin.org")
    async_client = httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://httpbin.org")

    try:
        response = await async_client.request("POST", "/post", data=[{"a": "b"}])
        print(response)
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)

    try:
        response = sync_client.request("POST", "/post", data=[{"a": "b"}])
        print(response)
    except Exception as e:
        print(e)


asyncio.run(test())