[http-request] How to extract HTTP response body from a Python requests call?

I'm using the Python requests library. I'm trying to figure out how to extract the actual HTML body from a response. The code looks a bit like this:

r = requests.get(...)
print r.content

This should indeed print lots of content, but instead prints nothing.

Any suggestions? Maybe I've misunderstood how requests.get() works?

import requests

site_request = requests.get("https://abhiunix.in")

site_response = str(site_request.content)

print(site_response)

You can do it either way.