Convert Google results object (pure js) to Python object

Question

So I\'m trying to use Google Map suggest API to request place name suggestions. Unfortunately I can\'t find the docs for this bit.

Here is an example URI:

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Answer 1

I would try to poke around in order to get JSON, but failing that there's this little monstrosity which someone will inevitably yell at me about:

class Iden(object):
  def __getitem__(name, index):
    return index

notjson = '{...}'

data = eval(notjson, {}, Iden())