parsing json output

[Tim Roberts]

Gowri <gowricp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I have a service running somewhere which gives me JSON data. 
>...
>This prints a whole bunch of nonsense as expected.

It's not nonsense.  It's JSON.

>I use cjson and am
>unable to figure out how to print this json response

You are already printing the JSON response.  That's what that script does.

>and I guess if I
>can do this, parsing should be straightforward? doing a
>cjson.decode(str(repsonse)) does not work.

If response.read() returns the JSON string, as you show above, one might
expect 
    cjson.decode(response.read())
to parse it.  Have you read the cjson documentation?
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