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Emeka writes:

> Thanks it worked when parsed with json.load. However, it needed this
> decode('utf'):
>
> data = json.loads(respData.decode('utf-8'))

So it does. The response data is bytes.

There's also a way to wrap a decoding reader between the response object
and the JSON parser (json.load instead of json.loads):

response = urllib.request.urlopen(command) # a stream of bytes ...
please = codecs.getreader('UTF-8') # ... to characters

result = json.load(please(response))