content() — requests Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the content() function in models.py from the requests codebase.

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Source Code

src/requests/models.py lines 893–909

    def content(self):
        """Content of the response, in bytes."""

        if self._content is False:
            # Read the contents.
            if self._content_consumed:
                raise RuntimeError("The content for this response was already consumed")

            if self.status_code == 0 or self.raw is None:
                self._content = None
            else:
                self._content = b"".join(self.iter_content(CONTENT_CHUNK_SIZE)) or b""

        self._content_consumed = True
        # don't need to release the connection; that's been handled by urllib3
        # since we exhausted the data.
        return self._content