AttributeError: 'Response' object has no attribute 'text'

Question

page = requests.get(url)
tree = html.fromstring(page.text)

At line 2 I get:

AttributeError: 'Response' object has no attribute 'text'

I have imported requests and installed requests. How do I debug this error? can anyone tell command to install lastest requests module?

Answer 1

You are using an ancient version of requests, most likely because it came installed with Ubuntu Precise Pengolin (12.04LTS).

You'll either have to refer to the version specific documentation or use a more recent version. requests has changed drastically since the 0.x version days.

For your old version, if you set response.encoding, response.content will contain a decoded Unicode value.