Python Requests Text Content
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I am using the terrific Python Requests library. I notice that the fine documentation has many examples of how to do something without explaining the why. For instance, both and ntent are shown as examples of how to get the server response. But where is it explained what these properties do? For instance, when would I choose one over the other? I see thar returns a unicode object sometimes, and I suppose that there would be a difference for a non-text response. But where is all this documented? Note that the linked document does state:
You can also access the response body as bytes, for non-text requests:
But then it goes on to show an example of a text response! I can only suppose that the quote above means to say non-text responses instead of non-text requests, as a non-text request does not make sense in HTTP.
In short, where is the proper documentation of the library, as opposed to the (excellent) tutorial on the Python Requests site?
asked Jun 9 ’13 at 15:51
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The sponse class documentation has more details:
is the content of the response in Unicode, and ntent is the content of the response in bytes.
answered Jun 9 ’13 at 15:57
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It seems clear from the documentation is that ntent
>>> ntent
If you read further down the page it addresses for example an image file
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returns the content of the response, in unicode. Basically, it refers to Binary Response content. Python requests are generally used to fetch the content from a particular resource URI. Whenever we make a request to a specified URI through Python, it returns a response object. Now, this response object would be used to access certain features such as content, headers, etc. This article revolves around how to check the out of a response object. How to use using Python requests? To illustrate use of, let’s ping API of Github. To run this script, you need to have Python and requests installed on your PC. Attention geek! Strengthen your foundations with the Python Programming Foundation Course and learn the basics. To begin with, your interview preparations Enhance your Data Structures concepts with the Python DS Course. And to begin with your Machine Learning Journey, join the Machine Learning – Basic Level CoursePrerequisites – Download and Install Python 3 Latest VersionHow to install requests in Python – For windows, linux, macExample code – Example Implementation –Save above file as and run using Python Output – Check the content at the start of output, it shows the entire content in vanced ConceptsThere are many libraries to make an HTTP request in Python, which are lib, urllib, lib2, treq, etc., but requests is the one of the best with cool features. If any attribute of requests shows NULL, check the status code using below attribute. atus_codeIf status_code doesn’t lie in range of 200-29. You probably need to check method begin used for making a request + the url you are requesting for resources.
Should I use .text or .content when parsing a Requests …
I occasionally use ntent or to parse a response from Requests. In the use cases I have had, it didn’t seem to matter which option I used.
What is the main difference in parsing HTML with. content or For example:
import requests
from lxml import html
res = (… )
node = omstring(ntent)
In the above situation, should I be using ntent or What is a good rule of thumb for when to use each?
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asked Oct 20 ’16 at 19:52
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From the documentation:
When you make a request, Requests makes educated guesses about the
encoding of the response based on the HTTP headers. The text encoding
guessed by Requests is used when you access You can find out
what encoding Requests is using, and change it, using the r. encoding
property:
>>> r. encoding
‘utf-8’
>>> r. encoding = ‘ISO-8859-1’
If you change the encoding, Requests will use the new value of
r. encoding whenever you call You might want to do this in any
situation where you can apply special logic to work out what the
encoding of the content will be. For example, HTTP and XML have the
ability to specify their encoding in their body. In situations like
this, you should use ntent to find the encoding, and then set
r. encoding. This will let you use with the correct encoding.
So ntent is used when the server returns binary data, or bogus encoding headers, to try to find the correct encoding inside a meta tag.
answered Oct 20 ’16 at 19:54
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