import cgi from io import BytesIO f = BytesIO('''--boundary Content-Disposition: form-data; name="%20%22" --boundary--''') env = { 'REQUEST_METHOD': 'POST', 'CONTENT_TYPE': 'multipart/form-data; boundary=boundary', 'CONTENT_LENGTH': '0', 'QUERY_STRING': '', } d = cgi.FieldStorage(fp=f, environ=env, keep_blank_values=True) assert d.keys() == [' "']