Error Using Python Requests Library - TypeError: 'dict' object is not callable

A recent task at work was to generate a Python class that could be used by developers to interact with our API. One of the methods in that class was to do a curl call to our API.

For this i used the very nice Requests Library and since our API returns output in JSON, i used the:

r.json() 

function to return the output. This worked fine on my Mac, but when this was tested on a Windows machine it returned the following error:

line 68, in doCurl   
print r.json() 
TypeError: 'dict' object is not callable

The solution, or so I thought was to use:

 r.json


As documented in the Love Python blog article. This worked wonders for the Windows machine, but as a consequence, it made my Mac spit out the following:

<bound method Response.json of <Response [200]>>

Since Python is not one of my strongest languages, (I've only been learning it for a few days!) I have no solution as to why this is happening and how to fix it.

In the end I settled for using:

r.text

to return the output as a string, not ideal, but it works on both OS's.

If you happen to know the solution to the above, please leave a comment!

For the record I'm using Python v2.6.1 - I know v3 is available, should I consider switching?