Simple script which converts address to coordinates

poi2coordinates.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import argparse
import json
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request

BASE = 'http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Locations?'

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('key')
parser.add_argument('file', type=argparse.FileType('r', encoding='UTF-8'))
args = parser.parse_args()

query = {
    'key':args.key,
    'maxResults':1,
}

for line in args.file.readlines():
    query['query'] = line.strip()
    url = BASE+urllib.parse.urlencode(query)
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read().decode("utf-8")
    result = json.loads(response)
    point = result['resourceSets'][0]['resources'][0]['point']['coordinates']
    print(line.strip()+': '+','.join(map(str, point)))

args.file.close()