[Python] Solve "RequestsJSONDecodeError" & "UnicodeDecodeError" while parsing API...

I'm calling a GET API , and is trying to parse the API response-body in JSON format. I have below approaches for parsing, i am mentioning the code and the traceback below:

Code_Snippet(Approach 1):

response=requests.get(loginapi,headers=headers)
print(response.json())

----And then I tried-----

response=requests.get(loginapi,headers=headers)
print(json.loads(response.text)


Traceback(same for both approaches):

RequestsJSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)


Code_Snippet(Approach 2):

print("Response Encoding: ",response.encoding) --Returns 'utf-8'
respData= json.loads(response.content.decode('utf-8'))
print(respData)


Traceback:

Response Encoding: utf-8
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte...: invalid start byte


For reference below is the response JSON which i beautified from postman:

{
"id": 188798,
"token": "e5f38c96-d25a-47hjo03-bb06-ec064yruu2eff84",
"display_name": "Abhijeet Goswami",
"email": "abhijeet.goswami@live.com",
"permissions": [
6,
10,
110
],
"rcs_code": null,
"irm_code": null,
"branch_id": null
}


**Kindly help in suggesting a solution to cope-up this and parse the response

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