python requests库 response_python请求库响应格式(python requests library response format)

I've recently starting using the requests library (which is excellent). However when I get a request response via a post method it seems to return a String(unicode) , when I check the type, even though it looks like a dictionary - which makes it more difficult to pull data from it.

Is there a way to have the json data returned in dictionary format, so I can easily extract a couple of fields?

specifically a request like:

>>> payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}

>>> r = requests.post("http://httpbin.org/post", data=payload)

>>> print(r.text)

{

...

"form": {

"key2": "value2",

"key1": "value1"

},

...

}

r.text is a unicode string not a dictionary (even though it looks like one above)?