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Demonstrate requests .json() JSONDecodeError on empty or invalid input
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requests_json_invalid.py
import requests, simplejson
resp_blank = "https://httpbin.org/status/200"
resp_200 = "http://httpstat.us/200"
try:
requests.get(resp_blank).json()
except simplejson.JSONDecodeError as e:
print(e)
try:
requests.get(resp_200).json()
except ValueError as e: # equivalent
print(e)
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