gistfile1.txt

import requests, sys
import json

gene_id = "NCOR2"

response = requests.get("http://rest.ensembl.org/lookup/symbol/homo_sapiens/{}?content-type=application/json;expand=1".format(gene_id))

json_data = response.content.decode("utf-8")
data = json.loads(json_data)

i = 0
numbers = []

while i < len(data.get('Transcript',[])):
    print data['Transcript'][i]['Translation']['id']
    numbers.append(i)
    i = i + 1