Thanks for the patch, Forest Bond.
However, the way I look at this feature, it could be added into urllib.request as a separate handler called MultiPostHandler and request object when it requires it should be able to add it and then use it.
Here is a first version of this patch, which would give the idea of how it would be added to the urllib.request (Note this is python3 adaptation of PyPi package by name MultipartPostHandler). I shall see to add this in 3.3 and shall include the tests/docs/howto.