urllib2 and json

Question

can anyone point out a tutorial that shows me how to do a POST request using urllib2 with the data being in JSON format?

Answer 1

To read json response use json.loads(). Here is the sample.

import json
import urllib
import urllib2

post_params = {
    'foo' : bar
}

params = urllib.urlencode(post_params)
response = urllib2.urlopen(url, params)
json_response = json.loads(response.read())