I'm using urllib2's urlopen function to try and get a JSON result from the StackOverflow api.

The code I'm using:

>>> import urllib2
>>> conn = urllib2.urlopen("http://api.stackoverflow.com/0.8/users/")
>>> conn.readline()

The result I'm getting:

'\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x04\x00\xed\xbd\x07`\x1cI\x96%&/m\xca{\x7fJ\...

I'm fairly new to urllib, but this doesn't seem like the result I should be getting. I've tried it in other places and I get what I expect (the same as visiting the address with a browser gives me: a JSON object).

Using urlopen on other sites (e.g. "http://google.com") works fine, and gives me actual html. I've also tried using urllib and it gives the same result.

I'm pretty stuck, not even knowing where to look to solve this problem. Any ideas?