Get json data via url and use in python (simplejson)

Question

I imagine this must have a simple answer, but I am struggling: I want to take a url (which outputs json) and get the data in a usable dictionary in python. I am stuck on the la

Answer 1

Try

f = opener.open(req)
simplejson.load(f)

without running f.read() first. When you run f.read(), the filehandle's contents are slurped so there is nothing left when your call simplejson.load(f)