How do I read a response from Python Requests?

Requests doesnt have an equivalent to Urlib2s read().

>>> import requests
>>> response = requests.get(http://www.google.com)
>>> print response.content
<!doctype html><html itemscope= itemtype=http://schema.org/WebPage><head>....
>>> 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,

>>> print response.content == response.text
False

>>> print str(response.content) == response.text
True

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 CKANs 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__)

How do I read a response from Python Requests?

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 = {name: filename}
files = {file: open(full_file_path, rb)}
response = requests.post(url, data=data, files=files)
current_url = response.text
print(response.text)

How do I read a response from Python Requests?

How do I read a response from Python Requests?

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