#!/usr/bin/env python2.6
"""
Get some JSON data from a URL passed on the commandline

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"""
import urllib2
import json
import sys


def getJSONPage( url ):
    """
    Get the JSON response from a url
    """
    data = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
    
    return json.loads(data)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) > 1:
        for url in sys.argv[1:]:
            print "FROM: %s" % (url)
            print getJSONPage(url)
    else:
        print "Usage: %s <URL>" % (sys.argv[0])

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