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suchislife
suchislife

Reputation: 1

Python JSON call

I'm starting to get into Python lately and was wondering if you could post some code about how to to encode a JSON string, send it as an HTTP request to a URL, and parse the response.

Here's some code I've been playing around with:

import os
import json

if os.name == 'nt':
    def clear_console():
        subprocess.call("cls", shell=True)
        return
else:
    def clear_console():
        subprocess.call("clear", shell=True)
        return

def login_call(username, password):

choice = 0

while int(choice) not in range(1,2):
    clear_console()
    print ('')
    print ('  Json Calls - Menu')
    choice = input('''
  1. Login.

  Enter Option: ''')

print ('')

choice = int(choice)

if choice == 1:

    login_call(username, password)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 480

Answers (2)

pelson
pelson

Reputation: 21849

I wrote an answer to do such a thing for the github api the other day. See my answer here.

In essence, the code boiled down to:

import urllib2
import json


data = {"text": "Hello world github/linguist#1 **cool**, and #1!"}
json_data = json.dumps(data)

req = urllib2.Request("https://api.github.com/markdown")
result = urllib2.urlopen(req, json_data)

print '\n'.join(result.readlines())

Upvotes: 4

Max
Max

Reputation: 11000

The modules you'll want are httplib or http.client, depending on your version of Python, and json. In JSON, the simple loads and dumps functions should encode and decode JSON easily for you.

Upvotes: 1

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