mac vendor finder

#python3.5
import urllib.request as urllib2
import json
import codecs

#API base url,you can also use https if you need
url = "http://macvendors.co/api/"
#Mac address to lookup vendor from
mac_address = "BC:92:6B:A0:00:01"

with open('mac.txt', 'r') as f:
    a = f.read().splitlines()
    for mac_address in a:
        try:
            request = urllib2.Request(url+mac_address, headers={'User-Agent' : "API Browser"}) 
            response = urllib2.urlopen( request )
            reader = codecs.getreader("utf-8")
            obj = json.load(reader(response))
            print (obj['result']['company'])
        except:
            print('could not find vendor, mac:'+mac_address)