Cache the value of the Response.text property

requests/models.py

@@ -653,8 +653,11 @@ class Response(object):
 
  def __init__(self):
 
+ # bytes of the page:
  self._content = False
  self._content_consumed = False
+ # unicode of the page:
+ self._text = None
 
  #: Integer Code of responded HTTP Status.
  self.status_code = None
@@ -793,7 +796,6 @@ def _detected_encoding(self):
  except Exception:
  return 'utf-8'
 
-
  @property
  def text(self):
  """Content of the response, in unicode.
@@ -802,6 +804,9 @@ def text(self):
  will be guessed.
  """
 
+ if self._text is not None:
+ return self._text
+
  # Try charset from content-type
  content = None
  encoding = self.encoding
@@ -822,6 +827,7 @@ def text(self):
  except (UnicodeError, TypeError):
  pass
 
+ self._text = content
  return content
 
  def raise_for_status(self, allow_redirects=True):