Python.Calling a JSON API

The program will prompt for a location, contact a web service and retrieve JSON for the web service and parse that data, and retrieve the first place_id from the JSON. A place ID is a textual identifier that uniquely identifies a place as within Google Maps.

Please run your program to find the place_id for this location:

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Hint: The first seven characters of the place_id are "ChIJ92o ..."

Python源码：

import urllib
import json

serviceurl = 'http://python-data.dr-chuck.net/geojson?'

while True:
    address = raw_input('Enter location: ')
    if len(address) < 1 : break

    url = serviceurl + urllib.urlencode({'sensor':'false', 'address': address})
    print 'Retrieving', url
    uh = urllib.urlopen(url)
    data = uh.read()
    print 'Retrieved',len(data),'characters'

    try: js = json.loads(str(data))
    except: js = None
    if 'status' not in js or js['status'] != 'OK':
        print '==== Failure To Retrieve ===='
        continue

    place_id = js["results"][0]["place_id"]
    print 'place_id',place_id
    break

运行结果：

Enter location: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Retrieving http://python-data.dr-chuck.net/geojson?sensor=false&address=Universidad+Nacional+de+Colombia
place_id ChIJ92ouU_A3y5ERtjaGNPTPUGY