How to parse data in JSON format?

Question

My project is currently receiving a JSON message in python which I need to get bits of information out of. For the purposes of this, let\'s set it to some simple JSON in a s

Answer 1

Sometimes your json is not a string. For example if you are getting a json from a url like this:

j = urllib2.urlopen('http://site.com/data.json')

you will need to use json.load, not json.loads:

j_obj = json.load(j)

(it is easy to forget: the 's' is for 'string')