From 3948a9562db886e7ead6a48dbcbada34fbeb0838 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory Benfield <lukasaoz@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 14:53:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Use general null check for JSON

---
 requests/models.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 3b8750fc..da6dccdc 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ class PreparedRequest(RequestEncodingMixin, RequestHooksMixin):
         content_type = None
         length = None
 
-        if data == {} and json is not None:
+        if not data and json is not None:
             content_type = 'application/json'
             body = complexjson.dumps(json)