Edit:
My problem below has been "solved", and it's a problem with the fact that I'm getting back gzip-compressed data from stackapps. See the SO Answer. I'm still unsure why this happens only on my computer (possible reason: routers in my network adding content-headers), but I'm guessing this should be fixed in the wrapper itself.
Come to think of it, the wrapper should probably be requesting gzip-compress data in the first place, to save download time.
Original question
I'm having problems using the library. I'm doing the following:
site = stackexchange.Site(stackexchange.StackOverflow)
user = site.user(userid)
And I'm getting the following exception:
ValueError at /answers
No JSON object could be decoded
After some debugging, I see that the line which throws the error is: dump = json.load(conn) (around line 410). When I try printing the urllib object I get back (conn), I get the following:
\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x04\x00\xed\xbd\x07`\x1cI\x96%&/m\xca{\x7fJ\xf5J\xd7\xe0t\xa1\x08\x80`\x ...
I don't have any experience with urllib, so I'm not sure if that's a good output, although it doesn't look right to me (by contrast, opening http://www.google.com gives back actual meaningful text).
Any ideas as to what the problem could be?
Edit: Just running the code snippet in your question in IDLE is causing a problem.