The key to understandingjsonResponse's format is to print it out:

import urllib, jsonimport pprintURL2 = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&sensor=false"googleResponse = urllib.urlopen(URL2)jsonResponse = json.loads(googleResponse.read())pprint.pprint(jsonResponse)# {u'results': [{u'address_components': [{u'long_name': u'1600',#                                         u'short_name': u'1600',#                                         u'types': [u'street_number']},#                                        {u'long_name': u'Amphitheatre Pkwy',#                                         u'short_name': u'Amphitheatre Pkwy',#                                         u'types': [u'route']},#                                        {u'long_name': u'Mountain View',#                                         u'short_name': u'Mountain View',#                                         u'types': [u'locality',#                                                    u'political']},#                                        {u'long_name': u'San Jose',#                                         u'short_name': u'San Jose',#                                         u'types': [u'administrative_area_level_3',#                                                    u'political']},#                                        {u'long_name': u'Santa Clara',#                                         u'short_name': u'Santa Clara',#                                         u'types': [u'administrative_area_level_2',#                                                    u'political']},#                                        {u'long_name': u'California',#                                         u'short_name': u'CA',#                                         u'types': [u'administrative_area_level_1',#                                                    u'political']},#                                        {u'long_name': u'United States',#                                         u'short_name': u'US',#                                         u'types': [u'country',#                                                    u'political']},#                                        {u'long_name': u'94043',#                                         u'short_name': u'94043',#                                         u'types': [u'postal_code']}],#                u'formatted_address': u'1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA',#                u'geometry': {u'location': {u'lat': 37.4216227,#                                            u'lng': -122.0840263},#                              u'location_type': u'ROOFTOP',#                              u'viewport': {u'northeast': {u'lat': 37.424770299999999,#                                                           u'lng': -122.0808787},#                                            u'southwest': {u'lat': 37.418475100000002,#                                                           u'lng': -122.0871739}}},#                u'types': [u'street_address']}],#  u'status': u'OK'}test = json.dumps([s['geometry']['location'] for s in jsonResponse['results']], indent=3)print(test)# [#    {#       "lat": 37.4216227, #       "lng": -122.0840263#    }# ]

1. jsonResponse is a dict.
2. jsonResponse['results'] is a list of dicts.
3. The loopfor s in jsonResponse['results'] assignss to a dict for each iterationthrough the loop.
4. s['geometry'] is a dict.
5. s['geometry']['location'](finally!) contains thelatitude/longitude dict.

First confusing it, cause the loads is not avaialble with import json, it has to be

import simplejson as json, so :

import urllibimport simplejson as jsonimport pprintURL2 = "http://pbx/a/kiosks"googleResponse = urllib.urlopen(URL2)jsonResponse = json.loads(googleResponse.read())pprint.pprint(jsonResponse)

• python
• json
• parsing
• google-maps