module requests, .text extension

[Truman]

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

import requests res = requests.get('https://automatetheboringstuff.com/files/rj.txt') print(type(res)) print(res.status_code == requests.codes.ok) print(len(res.text)) print(res.text[:250])   res = requests.get('http://inventwithpython.com/page_that_does_not_exist') res.raise_for_status()   res = requests.get('http://inventwithpython.com/page_that_does_not_exist') try:     res.raise_for_status() except Exception as exc:     print(f'There was a problem {exc}')

In lines 5 and 6 .text is used. Why does it have to be used? Why the content of Response type res can't be printed? And if an extension must be added why not .txt?

[gontajones]

The res is an object returned from requests.get().
You use .text to get the "text" content of the object.