python requests returning no data

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37605278/how-to-determine-if-my-python-requests-call-to-api-returns-no-data

# 1. Test if response body contains sth.
if response.text:
    # ...

# 2. Handle error if deserialization fails (because of no text)
try:
    responses=response.json()
    # ...
except ValueError:
    # no JSON returned

# 3. check that .json() did NOT return an empty dict
if responses:
    # ...