How to save Python Requests data sent to server?

[RedLeonard]

ok, now I'm trying to send a text file to the same server but it's not saving the text.
If I use this script to send to httbin.org it works fine:

import requests
import json


#url = 'https://madmartin.pythonanywhere.com/postit2'
url = 'http://httpbin.org/post'
textfile = {'file': open('why.txt', 'rb')}

response = requests.post(url, files=textfile)
   
response.status_code
   
if response.status_code == 200:
    print('Success - file delivered! Raffik')
    print(response.content)
else:
    print('Got unexpected status code {}: {!r}'.format(response.status_code, response.headers))
in Python idle, when entering 'response.headers' I get the read out:

Success - file delivered! Raffik
b'{\n  "args": {}, \n  "data": "", \n  "files": {\n    "file": "Why can\'t I be you?"\n  }, \n  "form": {}, \n  "headers": {\n    "Accept": "*/*", \n    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate", \n    "Content-Length": "162", \n    "Content-Type": "multipart/form-data; boundary=36872c4d29134cfd97c0256735190e91", \n    "Host": "httpbin.org", \n    "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.21.0", \n    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-5f002a57-c4e15fe0e86424b48e33f8ec"\n  }, \n  "json": null, \n  "origin": "86.185.109.250", \n  "url": "http://httpbin.org/post"\n}\n'

that's fine, I can see the contents of the text file ('why can't I be you?')

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now when I swap the url to post to my own webiste/server ('https://madmartin.pythonanywhere.com/postit2'

and then print out the headers, I only get:

{'Content-Length': '2', 'X-Clacks-Overhead': 'GNU Terry Pratchett', 'Date': 'Sat, 04 Jul 2020 07:05:08 GMT', 'Server': 'PythonAnywhere', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'Content-Type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8'}

what I want is to be able to save the text file yet, like before, it only gives me an empty file, my view is as such:

@app.route('/postit2', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def postit2():

        [python]x = request.files.getlist('textfile')
        #gives empty dict: x = request.files.getlist('textfile')


        with open('/home/MadMartin/datapostfiles/EFL8.txt', 'w') as f:
            f.write(str(x))
            return '''ok'''

EFL8.txt just returns []

so, is there a way to get my site acting the same way as the other one and save the file contents to EFL8.txt?