Good point, Anthony. Thanks for mentioning the fetch() function.
Learned something new.
It's amazing how much information is compressed into that book. I get
something new out of it each time I go back and read a chapter.
On Sep 15, 10:12 pm, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 15, 2011 5:55:30 PM UTC-4, Eric wrote:
>
> > I've not used any of the google api, but if you just need to access
> > and parse a json formatted api, you would need to use urllib or
> > urllib2 to make the request, then use simplejson or json or parse the
> > results:
>
> > import urllib
> > import simplejson
>
> > req = urllib.urlopen("http://google.com/api.json";) ##<-example only
>
> Also, note that web2py includes its own fetch() function in gluon.tools to
> fetch a url -- the difference from the above is that it works on GAE as well
> (the above does not).
> Seehttp://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/12#Fetching-an-external-URL(note,
> the book incorrectly refers to google.tools, but should be gluon.tools).
>
> Anthony
