>>> url="http://api.btc38.com/v1/ticker.php"
>>> headers = {'content-type': 'application/json',
... 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0'}
>>> params = { 'c': 'btsx', 'mk_type': 'btc' }
>>> responce = requests.get(url=url, params=params, headers=headers)
>>> vars(responce)['_content']
'\xef\xbb\xbf{"ticker":{"high":6.92e-5,"low":6.37e-5,"last":6.78e-5,"vol":1213613.924615,"buy":6.7e-5,"sell":6.78e-5}}'
>>>
you can see there is special charset '\xef\xbb\xbf', this is because of utf8 encode
so we need to add a call decode("utf-8-sig")