No JSON object could be decoded when running $ python setup.py test

[rchoudh2]

On Windows 10, with Python 2.7.14 installed, while running $ python setup.py test command, it throws the following error:
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\hoverpy\hoverpy\hoverpy\tests\testVirtualisation.py", line 55, in testDecorators
epoch = testCapture()
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\hoverpy\hoverpy\hoverpy\decorators.py", line 13, in wrapped_f
return f(*args)
File "c:\python27\lib\site-packages\hoverpy\hoverpy\hoverpy\tests\testVirtualisation.py", line 42, in testCapture
j = r.json()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 812, in json
return complexjson.loads(self.text, **kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\json_init_.py", line 339, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Python27\lib\json\decoder.py", line 364, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Python27\lib\json\decoder.py", line 382, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded