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

Question

When I try to use the .json() method of a response object from the requests library, I get an error:

>>> import requests
>>> response = requests.get("http://example.com/myfile.json")
>>> response_json = response.json()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'Response' object has no attribute 'json'

Why am I getting this error and how can I fix it?

Solution

Your version of the requests library is too old. JSON support was added in version 0.12.1, released nearly 2 years ago.

The currently released version is 2.2.1.

Comments

[AKIWEB]

Thanks. How would I update this in my Ubuntu machine? Any idea?

[Martijn Pieters]

@AKIWEB: I'm guessing you are using Ubuntu Precise? Use a virtualenv and install a new version into that? Alternatively, use a backport of a newer Ubuntu package.

[AKIWEB]

I am not sure as this machine was provided to me by unix folks in our company.. Is there no way I can update this library directly in my ubuntu machine?

[Martijn Pieters]

It's a Ubuntu package you have; a virtualenv will give you a private area to easily install library versions that you need to get your project working. The Ubuntu packages are way out of date, and I doubt you are going to get them updated.

[Shekhar Samanta]

pip install requests --upgrade