AttributeError: 'Response' object has no attribute 'text'

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``` page = requests.get(url) tree = html.fromstring(page.text) ``` At line 2 I get: ``` AttributeError: 'Response' object has no attribute 'text' ``` I have imported requests and installed requests. How do I debug this error? can anyone tell command to install lastest requests module?

Accepted Answer

You are using an ancient version of `requests`, most likely because it came installed with Ubuntu Precise Pengolin (12.04LTS).

You'll either have to refer to the version specific documentation or use a more recent version. `requests` has changed drastically since the 0.x version days.

For your old version, if you set `response.encoding`, `response.content` will contain a decoded Unicode value.

AttributeError: 'Response' object has no attribute 'text'

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