Json in the pattern.web

[John DeBovis]

When i try to do:
simplejson.load(URL(url)) i get AttributeError: 'URL' object has no
attribute 'read'

as opposed to:
simplejson.load(urllib.urlopen(url)) working.

I know there are some other routes I could do for this, are there any
plans on incorporating a json wrapper in pattern.web?

[Tom De Smedt]

That's because 'URL' is not a file-like object (i.e., it has no read()
method). But this is easy to implement, I'll add it in the next release.

Meanwhile you can do:
simplejson.loads(URL(url).download())

Note: Pattern comes bundled with simplejson.
You can use it as follows:
from pattern.web import json
json.loads(URL(url).download())