Let JSON object accept bytes or let urlopen output strings

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Python’s wonderful standard library to the rescue…

import codecs

reader = codecs.getreader("utf-8")
obj = json.load(reader(response))

Works with both py2 and py3.

Docs: Python 2, Python3

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