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Google App Engine: How can I turn results from an API into a Python dictionary?

• I'm making an app using Google app engine. I want to query an API, get JSON results, and use the dictionary in my app. Many tutorials I've seen for this use Python libraries that I don't seem to have natively in Google App Engine. Is there an easy way to do it with Python default libraries? Alternatively, how can I install necessary libraries in GAE?

• Answer:

  Google AppEngine has now been upgraded to Python 2.7, so you can use the built-in json module. import json data = '{"site": "quora", "url": "http://quora.com/", "metadata": {"visitors": 10000}}' response = json.loads(data) You can then access the fields in this dictionary as you would any other dictionary. E.g., response['site'] will output "quora", and response['metadata']['visitors'] will output 10000. Python pre-2.6 does not have the json module, so if you're using an older Python, you'll have to use simplejson, which exists in both Django and its own package (pip install simplejson or pip install django). Django 1.2 is pre-installed on the AppEngine Python environment. Simplejson has an identical API to the built-in json module. try: import json except ImportError: try: import simplejson as json except ImportError: from django.utils import simplejson as json data = '{"site": "quora", "url": "http://quora.com/"}' response = json.loads(data)