From 83a9f2c7407347a4e1e148e2a1bea4b47e1543c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Max Countryman Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:22:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] explicating the cause of LookupError with a better comment --- requests/models.py | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py index 4bccb1e..fa06948 100644 --- a/requests/models.py +++ b/requests/models.py @@ -789,7 +789,10 @@ class Response(object): try: content = str(self.content, encoding, errors='replace') except LookupError: - # try blindly encoding + # A LookupError is raised if the encoding was not found which could + # indicate a misspelling or similar mistake. + # + # So we try blindly encoding. content = str(self.content, errors='replace') except (UnicodeError, TypeError): pass -- 2.34.1