How do I read a response from Python Requests

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I have two Python scripts  One uses the Urllib2 library and one uses the Requests library   I have found Requests easier to implement  but I can t find an equivalent for urlib2 s read   function  For example       response   url urlopen req  print response geturl   print response getcode   data   response read   print data   Once I have built up my post url  data   response read   gives me the content - I am trying to connect to a vcloud director api instance and the response shows the endpoints that I have access to  However if I use the Requests library as follows             def post call username  org  password  key  secret        endpoint     lt URL ENDPOINT gt       post url   endpoint    sessions      get url   endpoint    org      headers     Accept   application   xml version 5 1                     Authorization   Basic     base64 b64encode username         org         password                     x-id-sec  base64 b64encode key         secret       print headers     post call   requests post post url  data None  headers   headers      print post call   POST call      print post call text   TEXT      print post call content   CONTENT      post call status code   STATUS CODE              the print post call text and print post call content returns nothing  even though the status code equals 200 in the requests post call   Why isn t my response from Requests returning any text or content

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If you push for example image to some API and want the result address response  back you could do  import requests url    https   uguu se api php d upload-tool  data     quot name quot   filename  files     file   open full file path   rb    response   requests post url  data data  files files  current url   response text print response text

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Requests doesn t have an equivalent to Urlib2 s read     gt  gt  gt  import requests  gt  gt  gt  response   requests get  quot http   www google com quot    gt  gt  gt  print response content   lt  doctype html gt  lt html itemscope  quot  quot  itemtype  quot http   schema org WebPage quot  gt  lt head gt        gt  gt  gt  print response content    response text True  It looks like the POST request you are making is returning no content  Which is often the case with a POST request  Perhaps it set a cookie  The status code is telling you that the POST succeeded after all  Edit for Python 3  Python now handles data types differently  response content returns a sequence of bytes  integers that represent ASCII  while response text is a string  sequence of chars   Thus   gt  gt  gt  print response content    response text False   gt  gt  gt  print str response content     response text True

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If the response is in json you could do something like  python3    import json import requests as reqs    Make the HTTP request  response   reqs get  http   demo ckan org api 3 action group list      Use the json module to load CKAN s response into a dictionary  response dict   json loads response text   for i in response dict      print  key     i   val     response dict i       To see everything in the response you can use    dict     print response   dict

[python] How do I read a response from Python Requests?

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