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Python httplib retrieve json object from getresponse()

So I currently working on a POST request to an api. 

conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.syncano.io')
conn.request(method="POST", url=url, body=postdata, headers=headers)
resp = conn.getresponse()

I used resp.read() but it returns me a string. Are there any way for me to read the response as a JSON object where I could get the result simply by doing resp['result']?

Solution

  • Given that the response body is valid JSON

    import json

respBody = resp.read()

responseObject = json.loads(respBody)

    Will create a python dictionary: "responseObject" from the JSON response body.

    More detail: json parsing with python