[compat] Rework compat for `method` parameter of `compat_urllib_request.Request` constructor

* fixes #32573
* does not break `utils.HEADrequest` (eg)

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/test_compat.py b/test/test_compat.py
index e233b1ae1..b83c8cb41 100644
--- a/test/test_compat.py
+++ b/test/test_compat.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ from youtube_dl.compat import (
     compat_urllib_parse_unquote,
     compat_urllib_parse_unquote_plus,
     compat_urllib_parse_urlencode,
+    compat_urllib_request,
 )
 
 
@@ -135,6 +136,19 @@ class TestCompat(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(compat_casefold('\u03a3'), '\u03c3')
         self.assertEqual(compat_casefold('A\u0345\u03a3'), 'a\u03b9\u03c3')
 
+    def test_compat_urllib_request_Request(self):
+        self.assertEqual(
+            compat_urllib_request.Request('http://127.0.0.1', method='PUT').get_method(),
+            'PUT')
+
+        class PUTrequest(compat_urllib_request.Request):
+            def get_method(self):
+                return 'PUT'
+
+        self.assertEqual(
+            PUTrequest('http://127.0.0.1').get_method(),
+            'PUT')
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()