Python requests unicode error

Question

I'm using a simple Python script to POST files to a PHP script:

...
url = "http://example.com/upload.php"
r = requests.post(url, data=data, files=files)
...

I need to catch the response text, which is stored in

r.text

But when the response contains ASCII characters (e.g. an image file), the Python fails with this error:

content = str(self.content, encoding, errors='replace')
TypeError: unicode() argument 2 must be string, not None

Is there any way to avoid this error?

Not handing in None as second argument (which seems to be encoding)? (i.e., it might be useful to have information where enconding comes from) — Jonas Schäfer
– Jonas Schäfer, Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 15:43

jfs · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-26 15:47:27Z

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Binary file such as an image has no associated character encoding. Use r.content instead of r.text.

answered Jun 26, 2012 at 15:47

jfs

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