[Answer]-Urllib2 and JSON Object Error

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You’ll need to decode the response before passing it to the json module:

response = urllib.request.urlopen(search_url)
codec = response.info().get_param('charset', 'utf8')  # default JSON encoding
json.loads(response.read().decode(codec))

The server is meant to provide you with a charset=... parameter in theContent-Type header, which the message.get_param() method above would retrieve for you. If the parameter is absent, the code falls back to UTF-8, the default encoding for JSON as per the RFC.

👤Martijn Pieters

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