Convert string to JSON using Python

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Published on 2010-12-24T19:48:19Z Indexed on 2010/12/24 19:54 UTC
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Hi,

I'm a little bit confused with JSON in Python. To me, it seems like a dictionary, and for that reason I'm trying to do that:

           json = """{
"glossary": {
    "title": "example glossary",
            "GlossDiv": {
        "title": "S",
                    "GlossList": {
            "GlossEntry": {
                "ID": "SGML",
                                    "SortAs": "SGML",
                                    "GlossTerm": "Standard Generalized Markup Language",
                                    "Acronym": "SGML",
                                    "Abbrev": "ISO 8879:1986",
                                    "GlossDef": {
                    "para": "A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.",
                                            "GlossSeeAlso": ["GML", "XML"]
                },
                                    "GlossSee": "markup"
            }
        }
    }
}

} """

But when I do print dict(json), it gives an error.

How can I transform this string into a structure and then call json["title"] to obtain "example glossary"?

Thanks.

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