Whoops, I was using the terminology "we should use the > -``r.text``
method, not the ``r.content`` method. ``r.content``" which should have been
attribute anyway
On Jan 6, 2013 4:24 AM, "sprt" <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In docs/user/advanced.rst:
>
> > @@ -313,17 +313,12 @@ out what type of content it is. Do this like so::
> >      ...
> >      application/json; charset=utf-8
> >
> > -So, GitHub returns JSON. That's great, we can use the JSON module to turn it
> > -into Python objects. Because GitHub returned UTF-8, we should use the
> > -``r.text`` method, not the ``r.content`` method. ``r.content`` returns a
> > -bytestring, while ``r.text`` returns a Unicode-encoded string. I have no plans
> > -to perform byte-manipulation on this response, so I want any Unicode code
> > -points encoded.
> > +So, GitHub returns JSON. That's great, we can use the ``r.json`` method to
>
> Typo: r.json should be r.json()
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