Unable to loop through JSON output from webservice Python - json

Question

I have a web-service call (HTTP Get) that my Python script makes in which returns a JSON response. The response looks to be a list of Dictionaries. The script's purpose is to iterate through the each dictionary, extract each piece of metadata (i.e. "ClosePrice": "57.74",) and write each dictionary to its own row in Mssql.
The issue is, I don't think Python is recognizing the JSON output from the API call as a list of dictionaries, and when I try a for loop, I'm getting the error must be int not str. I have tried converting the output to a list, dictionary, tuple. I've also tried to make it work with List Comprehension, with no luck. Further, if I copy/paste the data from the API call and assign it to a variable, it recognizes that its a list of dictionaries without issue. Any help would be appreciated. I'm using Python 2.7.
Here is the actual http call being made: http://test.kingegi.com/Api/QuerySystem/GetvalidatedForecasts?user=kingegi&market=us&startdate=08/19/13&enddate=09/12/13
Here is an abbreviated JSON output from the API call:
[
{
"Id": "521d992cb031e30afcb45c6c",
"User": "kingegi",
"Symbol": "psx",
"Company": "phillips 66",
"MarketCap": "34.89B",
"MCapCategory": "large",
"Sector": "basic materials",
"Movement": "up",
"TimeOfDay": "close",
"PredictionDate": "2013-08-29T00:00:00Z",
"Percentage": ".2-.9%",
"Latency": 37.48089483333333,
"PickPosition": 2,
"CurrentPrice": "57.10",
"ClosePrice": "57.74",
"HighPrice": null,
"LowPrice": null,
"Correct": "FALSE",
"GainedPercentage": 0,
"TimeStamp": "2013-08-28T02:31:08 778",
"ResponseMsg": "",
"Exchange": "NYSE "
},
{
"Id": "521d992db031e30afcb45c71",
"User": "kingegi",
"Symbol": "psx",
"Company": "phillips 66",
"MarketCap": "34.89B",
"MCapCategory": "large",
"Sector": "basic materials",
"Movement": "down",
"TimeOfDay": "close",
"PredictionDate": "2013-08-29T00:00:00Z",
"Percentage": "16-30%",
"Latency": 37.4807215,
"PickPosition": 1,
"CurrentPrice": "57.10",
"ClosePrice": "57.74",
"HighPrice": null,
"LowPrice": null,
"Correct": "FALSE",
"GainedPercentage": 0,
"TimeStamp": "2013-08-28T02:31:09 402",
"ResponseMsg": "",
"Exchange": "NYSE "
}
]
Small Part of code being used:
import os,sys
import subprocess
import glob
from os import path
import urllib2
import json
import time
try:
data = urllib2.urlopen('http://api.kingegi.com/Api/QuerySystem/GetvalidatedForecasts?user=kingegi&market=us&startdate=08/10/13&enddate=09/12/13').read()
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
print "HTTP error: %d" % e.code
except urllib2.URLError, e:
print "Network error: %s" % e.reason.args[1]
list_id=[x['Id'] for x in data] #test to see if it extracts the ID from each Dict
print(data) #Json output
print(len(data)) #should retrieve the number of dict in list

Answer 1

UPDATE
Answered my own question, here is the method below:
`url = 'some url that is a list of dictionaries' #GetCall
u = urllib.urlopen(url) # u is a file-like object
data = u.read()
newdata = json.loads(data)
print(type(newdata)) # printed data type will show as a list
print(len(newdata)) #the length of the list
newdict = newdata[1] # each element in the list is a dict
print(type(newdict)) # this element is a dict
length = len(newdata) # how many elements in the list
for a in range(1,length): #a is a variable that increments itself from 1 until a number
var = (newdata[a])
print(var['Correct'], var['User'])`