[Python] python requests GET returning HTTP 204

I cannot wrap my brain around this issue:

When I run this code in my IDE (pycharm), or via the command line, I get a 204 HTTP response and no content. When I set breakpoints in my debugger to see what is happening, the code executes fine and r.content and r.text are populated with the results from the request. r.status_code also has a value of 200 when running in the debugger.

code:

r = requests.post(self.dispatchurl, verify=False, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(self.user, self.passwd))
print 'first request to get sid: status {}'.format(r.status_code)
json_data = json.loads(r.text)
self.sid = json_data['sid']
print 'the sid is: {}'.format(self.sid)
self.getresulturl = '{}/services/search/jobs/{}/results{}'.format(self.url, self.sid, self.outputmode)
x = requests.get(self.getresulturl, verify=False, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(self.user, self.passwd))
print 'second request to get the data: status {}'.format(x.status_code)
print 'content: {}'.format(x.text)


output when run through debugger:

first request to get sid: status 201
the sid is: sanitizedatahere
second request to get the data: status 200
content: {"preview":false...}

Process finished with exit code 0


When I execute the code normally without the debugger, i get a 204 on the second response.

output:

first request to get sid: status 201
the sid is: sanitizedatahere
second request to get the data: status 204
content:

Process finished with exit code 0


I am guessing this has something to do with the debugger slowing down the requests and allowing the server to respond with the data? This seems like a race condition. I've never run into this with requests.

Is there something I am doing wrong? I'm at a loss. Thanks in advance for looking.

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