requests对象的get和post方法都会返回一个Response对象，这个对象里面存的是服务器返回的所有信息，包括响应头，响应状态码等。其中返回的网页部分会存在.content和.text两个对象中。
两者区别在于，content中间存的是字节码，而text中存的是Beautifulsoup根据猜测的编码方式将content内容编码成字符串。
直接输出content，会发现前面存在b'这样的标志，这是字节字符串的标志，而text是，没有前面的b,对于纯ascii码，这两个可以说一模一样，对于其他的文字，需要正确编码才能正常显示。大部分情况建议使用.text，因为显示的是汉字，但有时会显示乱码，这时需要用.content.decode('utf-8')，中文常用utf-8和GBK，GB2312等。这样可以手工选择文字编码方式。
所以简而言之，.text是现成的字符串，.content还要编码，但是.text不是所有时候显示都正常，这是就需要用.content进行手动编码。
上面的内容转自https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/941417472703558372.html
可以举几个例子看看：
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
response = requests.get('https://www.baidu.com')
re_text = response.text
re_content = response.content
print (re_text)
print (type(re_text))
print (re_content)
print (type(re_content))
response.encoding = 'utf-8'
re_text = response.text
print (re_text)
输出结果为：（下面的分割线是手动加的）
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