GoogleMaps API -address to coordinates (latitude,longitude)

Question

This is driving me crazy. I have deleted this key 1000 times so far. Yesterday it worked like a charm, today not anymore Here is the python code:

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Answer 1

Did some code golfing and ended up with this version. Depending on your need you might want to distinguish some more error conditions.

import urllib, urllib2, json

def decode_address_to_coordinates(address):
        params = {
                'address' : address,
                'sensor' : 'false',
        }  
        url = 'http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?' + urllib.urlencode(params)
        response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
        result = json.load(response)
        try:
                return result['results'][0]['geometry']['location']
        except:
                return None