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

There's an even easier way - you dont need simplejson at all. Python can parse json into a dict/array using the eval statement as long as you set true/false/null to the right values.

# fetch the url
url = "https://api.twitter.com/1/users/lookup.json?user_id=6253282,18949452"
json = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()

# convert to a native python object
(true,false,null) = (True,False,None)
profiles = eval(json)