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Strange return using the "requests" python package? How to fix?

I had installed the python package named requests. (pip install -i http://pip.kennethreitz.com/simple requests)

First, I tried using the common user ($) but didn't worked, so, i tried the root one (#) and worked.

The problem was in the use. When I try a simple code like

$python
>>>import requests
>>>r = requests.get('http://www.google.com')
>>>r.content

I got a incridble annoying result (see this pastebin link.)

But using root

$sudo python
>>>import requests
>>>r = requests.get('http://www.google.com')
>>>r.content

I got the correct and reasonable result: pastebin.

How can I fix this? This happens with urllib.urlencode too. (Maybe installed using sudo easy_install, but I don't remember anymore).

I tried chmod -R 777 in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages and /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages but still with the same problem.

I really think the problem is with python packages because this codes are extremly simply.

System details:

Python 2.6.5

Ubuntu LTS 10.04.4

requests package 0.7.5

Solution

  • It looks like your problems have to do with unicode. Try r.content.decode('utf-8').