strange python issue, 'unicode' object has no attribute 'read'

Question

Here is my code and does anyone have any ideas what is wrong? I open my JSON content directly by browser and it works,

data = requests.get(\'http://ws.audios         


        

Answer 1

requests.get(…).text returns the content as a single (unicode) string. The json.load() function however requires a file-like argument.

The solution is rather simple: Just use loads instead of load:

data = json.loads(data)

An even better solution though is to simply call json() on the response object directly. So don’t use .text but .json():

data = requests.get(…).json()

While this uses json.loads itself internally, it hides that implementation detail, so you can just focus on getting the JSON response.