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This entry is a bit of a cookbook for using Yahoo's Python library for accessing the BOSS Mashup Framework. It has full examples for searching the web, images, news , for paginating results, and for limiting searches to specific domains.

You are responding to this comment written by Will Larson on July 17th 2008, 00:01.

Lyna,

Are you running Python in a directory that contains the config.json file? I have to admit I'm not exactly sure how the path is decided in the Windows XP context.

My impression is that the poor design of the library in regards to the config.json file, and attempts to discover it, are at the root of this.

However, it might also be a malformed config.json file as well. Trying something like this should help narrow things down:

import simplejson
file = open('config.json','r')
data = file.read()
file.close()
extracted = simplejson.loads(data)
print extracted

Sorry that I don't have a Windows machine to test things on. When I was actually doing Python development on Windows XP I wasn't doing anything sufficiently advanced to run into these kinds of issues.

Will

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