What is the difference between 'content' and 'text'

Question

I am using the terrific Python Requests library. I notice that the fine documentation has many examples of how to do something without explaining the why.

Answer 1

It seems clear from the documentation is that r.content

You can also access the response body as bytes, for non-text requests:

 >>> r.content

If you read further down the page it addresses for example an image file

Answer 2

The requests.Response class documentation has more details:

r.text is the content of the response in Unicode, and r.content is the content of the response in bytes.