fix to work in both python 2 and 3

steveherschleb · steveherschleb · commit 336138f870c9 · 2013-10-03T20:58:21.000-06:00
diff --git a/alchemyapi.py b/alchemyapi.py
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@
 try:
 	from urllib.request import urlopen
 	from urllib.parse import urlparse
-	from urllib.quote import urlquote
+	from urllib.parse import quote as urlquote
 except ImportError:	
+	print("IMPORT ERROR")
 	from urlparse import urlparse
 	from urllib2 import urlopen
 	from urllib2 import quote as urlquote
@@ -571,9 +572,8 @@ def __analyze(self, url, options):
 		
 		try: 
 			#build the request with uri encoding
-			req = urlparse(url)
-			page = urlopen(req.geturl())
-			return json.load(page)
+			page = urlopen(url).read().decode("utf-8")
+			return json.loads(page)
 		except Exception as e:
 			print('error for url: ', url)
 			print(e)
