Google geocoder wrapper script and "library"

geocode.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import urllib
import json


def geocode(address):
	return json.loads(urllib.urlopen(
		"http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=%s" % (
			urllib.quote(address.encode('utf-8')))
	).read())


if __name__ == '__main__':
	import argparse
	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
	parser.add_argument('address')

	args = parser.parse_args()

	print json.dumps(geocode(args.address.decode('utf-8')), indent=4)