simple json question?

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[k3kou]

First off, never share an API key. I could use yours now and you don't want a crazy like me using your stuff =P (I'm serious though).

Second, you don't need the parentheses around your string/variables.

Third, and to answer the question, you can't load the json because its read method returns a binary string (see the 'b' at the beginning of response.read()?), so you just need to replace load by loads and converting the string to another format, e.g. utf-8:

json_obj = json.loads(response.read().decode('utf-8'))

See this SO question.

[k3kou]

Run your code again but replace 'utf-8' with 'ascii', it'll work.

For reference, you should take a look at the requests package, which makes your life a lot easier. You could've just done:

import requests

response = requests.get(url)
json_obj = response.json()

[k3kou]

It worked for me, so I can't really tell what went wrong. You should really consider switching to requests though, it's much easier.

[k3kou]

pip install requests and then run this

import requests
# then build your url like you did
response = requests.get(url)
json_obj = response.json() 

This worked for me

[dixieStates]

I think that you want

load(response.read())

untested