Method _post

src/telegram/_bot.py:686–719

(
        self,
        endpoint: str,
        data: JSONDict | None = None,
        *,
        read_timeout: ODVInput[float] = DEFAULT_NONE,
        write_timeout: ODVInput[float] = DEFAULT_NONE,
        connect_timeout: ODVInput[float] = DEFAULT_NONE,
        pool_timeout: ODVInput[float] = DEFAULT_NONE,
        api_kwargs: JSONDict | None = None,
    )

                data[key] = DefaultValue.get_value(val)

    async def _post(
        self,
        endpoint: str,
        data: JSONDict | None = None,
        *,
        read_timeout: ODVInput[float] = DEFAULT_NONE,
        write_timeout: ODVInput[float] = DEFAULT_NONE,
        connect_timeout: ODVInput[float] = DEFAULT_NONE,
        pool_timeout: ODVInput[float] = DEFAULT_NONE,
        api_kwargs: JSONDict | None = None,
    ) -> Any:
        # We know that the return type is Union[bool, JSONDict, list[JSONDict]], but it's hard
        # to tell mypy which methods expects which of these return values and `Any` saves us a
        # lot of `type: ignore` comments
        if data is None:
            data = {}

        if api_kwargs:
            data.update(api_kwargs)

        # Insert is in-place, so no return value for data
        self._insert_defaults(data)

        # Drop any None values because Telegram doesn't handle them well
        data = {key: value for key, value in data.items() if value is not None}

        return await self._do_post(
            endpoint=endpoint,
            data=data,
            read_timeout=read_timeout,
            write_timeout=write_timeout,
            connect_timeout=connect_timeout,
            pool_timeout=pool_timeout,
        )

    async def _do_post(
        self,