Better handling of encoding and day of week

bot.py

@@ -2,15 +2,13 @@
 """
 Code for schneiderbot
 """
-import os
+import logging
 import datetime
+import random
 # import urllib.request
 # import json
 import requests
-import logging
-import random
 
-import discord
 from discord.ext import commands
 
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
@@ -61,11 +59,12 @@ async def mensa(which="zentral"):
         # Es ist zu spät am Tag, zeig das essen für morgen an
         today += 1
 
-    # with urllib.request.urlopen("https://mensa.schneider-hosting.de/static/%s.%d.json" % (MENSA_URL[which], today)) as url:
-        # print(url.read().decode())
-        # data = json.loads(url.read().decode())
+    today = today % 7
 
-    data = requests.get("https://mensa.schneider-hosting.de/static/%s.%d.json"  % (MENSA_URL[which], today)).json()
+    url = "https://mensa.schneider-hosting.de/static/%s.%d.json" % (MENSA_URL[which], today)
+    request = requests.get(url)
+    request.encoding = 'utf-8'
+    data = request.json()
 
     await BOT.say("Das Essen für %s in der %s" % (data["date"], MENSA_NAME[which]))