Convert results from url lib.request

Question

I try to read data from the api geonames. I am using Python 3.7 This is working as it should. Now I need to convert the results, but I don't know how. This is my code:

import urllib.request
import json

#Lat & lon of Hellevoetsluis-NL
lat=51.8
lon=4.131

var = '&lat=' + str(lat)+'&lng='+str(lon)+'&username=demo'
raw = urllib.request.urlopen(url2+var, timeout=4).read(10000)
raw = urllib.request.urlopen(url2+var, timeout=4).read(1000)

this is the result

b'{"geonames": [{\n  "adminCode1": "11",\n  "lng": "4.13333",\n  "distance": "3.7119",\n  "geonameId": 2754454,\n  "toponymName": "Hellevoetsluis",\n  "countryId": "2750405",\n  "fcl": "P",\n  "population": 21927,\n  "countryCode": "NL",\n  "name": "Hellevoetsluis",\n  "fclName": "city, village,...",\n  "countryName": "Netherlands",\n  "fcodeName": "populated place",\n  "adminName1": "South Holland",\n  "lat": "51.83333",\n  "fcode": "PPL"\n}]}'

And this is what I need:

{u'geonames': [{u'distance': u'0.19394', u'countryId': u'2750405', u'name': u'Hellevoetsluis', u'countryCode': u'NL', u'geonameId': 2754454, u'toponymName':

Thanks for any help

What version of Python are you using? And no, 3.7 is not a valid version. It can't be 2.7, as you are using urllib.request, so it must be a 3.x release. — Martijn Pieters, Mar 16 '16 at 15:11
You are trying to load *JSON*. I've duplicated you to a post that shows you how to load that (second answer is for Python 3.x). — Martijn Pieters, Mar 16 '16 at 15:12
I using version 3.5.1, and in real I use only the last read of the url lib.request.urlopen! — PowerSoft, Mar 16 '16 at 15:14
Reload this page, the link is at the top in the yellow banner. — Martijn Pieters, Mar 16 '16 at 15:17

Convert results from url lib.request

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