Doing WFS post request from python

wfs.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-


import codecs
import requests
import argparse


def post(args):
    headers =  {'Content-Type': 'application/xml'}
    r = requests.post(url = args.url, data=open(args.payload, 'rb'), headers=headers)
    return r.content

if __name__ == '__main__':
    
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description = 'Does WFS POST request.')
    parser.add_argument("payload",          help = 'The file containing the payload for the POST request.')
    parser.add_argument("url",              help = 'The url to send the request to.')
    
    args = parser.parse_args()

    print(post(args))