python compile error_TypeError:compile（）需要不带空字节的字符串

我正在尝试使用google translate API翻译字符串。#!/usr/bin/env python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import sys

import urllib

import urllib2

import ast

url = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q='+urllib.quote(' '.join(sys.argv[3:])) +'&langpair='+sys.argv[1]+'%7C'+sys.argv[2]

print url

transtext =urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request(url)).read()

content=ast.literal_eval(transtext)

print content['responseData']['translatedText']

python testURL.py hi en'23450स्ते'

这是给定的url。{"responseData": {"translatedText":"Hello"}, "responseDetails": null, "responseStatus": 200}

这是字符串格式，因此我尝试使用ast.literal_eval将其转换为字典格式，然后按内容['responseData']['translateText']访问字典中的数据，但出现以下错误

错误：content=ast.literal_eval(transtext)

File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ast.py", line 49, in literal_eval

node_or_string = parse(node_or_string, mode='eval')

File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ast.py", line 37, in parse

return compile(expr, filename, mode, PyCF_ONLY_AST)

TypeError: compile() expected string without null bytes

python版本2.6和OS Ubuntu 9.10