Example showing how to read dict marshalled using str(dict) and print json

json_example001.py

'''
Created on 18/10/2014

@author: mvalle
'''
from urllib2 import urlopen
import json

if __name__ == '__main__':
    f = urlopen("https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/acbd70c0616e4225764c/raw/41e9b49faf122d346cce0b5bc12176e33874034a/gistfile1.txt")
    try:
        file_text = f.read()
    finally:
        f.close()
        
    my_dict_var = eval(file_text)
    print json.dumps(my_dict_var, indent=4)