get_unicode_from_response() — requests Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the get_unicode_from_response() function in utils.py from the requests codebase.

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Source Code

src/requests/utils.py lines 579–615

def get_unicode_from_response(r):
    """Returns the requested content back in unicode.

    :param r: Response object to get unicode content from.

    Tried:

    1. charset from content-type
    2. fall back and replace all unicode characters

    :rtype: str
    """
    warnings.warn(
        (
            "In requests 3.0, get_unicode_from_response will be removed. For "
            "more information, please see the discussion on issue #2266. (This"
            " warning should only appear once.)"
        ),
        DeprecationWarning,
    )

    tried_encodings = []

    # Try charset from content-type
    encoding = get_encoding_from_headers(r.headers)

    if encoding:
        try:
            return str(r.content, encoding)
        except UnicodeError:
            tried_encodings.append(encoding)

    # Fall back:
    try:
        return str(r.content, encoding, errors="replace")
    except TypeError:
        return r.content