Python requests writes the name of the file instead of contents to web page

[bluethundr]

I have a function that tries to write a web page into conflunece. Instead of posting the contents of a file, it writes the name of the file to the web page.

I am using the python requests module to write to the web page.

On the web page I see this:

../output_files/aws_instance_list/html/aws-master-list-06-05-2019.html

As the only contents of the page.

This is the code that I'm using to write to the page:

BASE_URL = "https://wiki.us.cworld.company.com/rest/api/content"
VIEW_URL = "https://wiki.us.cworld.company.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId="
def get_page_ancestors(auth, pageid):
    # Get basic page information plus the ancestors property
    url = '{base}/{pageid}?expand=ancestors'.format(
        base = BASE_URL,
        pageid = pageid)
    r = requests.get(url, auth = auth)
    r.raise_for_status()
    return r.json()['ancestors']


def get_page_info(auth, pageid):
    url = '{base}/{pageid}'.format(
        base = BASE_URL,
        pageid = pageid)
    r = requests.get(url, auth = auth)
    r.raise_for_status()
    return r.json()
    htmlfile = '../output_files/aws_instance_list/html/aws-master-list-06-05-2019.html'
    pageid = 138317098
    auth = ('username','password')
    write_data(auth, htmlfile, pageid, 'AWS EC2 Instance List')
    def write_data(auth, htmlfile, pageid, title = None):
        info = get_page_info(auth, pageid)
        ver = int(info['version']['number']) + 1
        ancestors = get_page_ancestors(auth, pageid)
        anc = ancestors[-1]
        del anc['_links']
        del anc['_expandable']
        del anc['extensions']
        if title is not None:
            info['title'] = title
        data = {
            'id' : str(pageid),
            'type' : 'page',
            'title' : info['title'],
            'version' : {'number' : ver},
            'ancestors' : [anc],
            'body'  : {
            'storage' :
            {
                'representation' : 'storage',
                'value' : str(htmlfile),
             }
          }
        }
        data = json.dumps(data)
        url = '{base}/{pageid}'.format(base = BASE_URL, pageid = pageid)
        r = requests.put(
            url,
            data = data,
            auth = auth,
            headers = { 'Content-Type' : 'application/json' }
        )
        r.raise_for_status()
        print("Wrote '%s' version %d" % (info['title'], ver))
        print("URL: %s%d" % (VIEW_URL, pageid))

I've looked at the contents of the 'htmlfile' and can see that it contains valid HTML.

How can I write the contents of the file to the page instead of the name of the file?

[Larz60+]

this code doesn't look like it will run period, at least not do much.
line 19 is an unconditional return, so nothing beyond that will ever get executes.