Calling Python gurus - need help getting Navigation Data Service to work?

[SimonN]

This is my code so far..

Am new to Python and can't nail this down yet ... much appreciated...

[SIZE="1"]import urllib.request as urllib2
url = 'https://api.betfair.com/exchange/betting/rest/v1/en/navigation/menu.json/'
headers = {'X-Application': APPKEY, 'X-Authentication': SESSION, 'content-type': 'application/json', 'accept': 'application/json', 'accept-encoding': 'gzip,deflate'}

def callAping(url):
try:
req = urllib2.Request(url, request, headers)
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
jsonResponse = response.read()
return jsonResponse

except urllib2.URLError:
print 'Oops there is some issue with the request'
exit()
except urllib2.HTTPError:
print 'Oops there is some issue with the request' + urllib2.HTTPError.getcode()
exit()[/SIZE]

[betdynamics]

What response do you get when you make the call?

i.e. if a json response is received, what does it contain?

[SimonN]

Hi BetDynamics,

My apologies for taking so long to reply.

Good news is got it working returning the correct JSON string. Played around with that many different things not entirely sure which thing I did made it work.

Now I am trying to get it working with gzip compression.