[Python] HTTPResponse object has no attribute json

I am retrieving data from an API which outputs some json content. However when I try to store the data into a simple text file with the following code:

import urllib3
import json

http = urllib3.PoolManager()
url = 'http://my/endpoint/url'
myheaders = {'Content-Type':'application/json'}
mydata = {'username':'***','password':'***'}
response = http.request('POST', url, body=json.dumps(mydata).encode('UTF-8'), headers=myheaders)
print(response.status_code)
data = response.json()

with open('data.json', 'w') as f:
json.dump(data, f)


I get the following error :

AttributeError: 'HTTPResponse' object has no attribute 'json'


So, I also tried using response.text with the following code:

file = open('data.json', 'w')
file.write(response.text)
file.close()


But I also get this error:

AttributeError: 'HTTPResponse' object has no attribute 'text'


Why can't I store my response into a simple text file ?

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