Using Facepy to request facebook data - django

Question

This is probably a silly question, but I been scratching my head over this for far too long.
I am trying to request the photo information from the facebook GraphAPI using Facepy/social-auth in django.
My view has the following code, but how do i turn the resulting json into python objects?
instance = UserSocialAuth.objects.filter(user=request.user).filter(provider='facebook')
graph = GraphAPI(instance[0].extra_data['access_token'])
p=graph.get('me/photos')
Facepy seems very good, but the documentation is poor at best, is there a better python facebook sdk that plays nice with social-auth?
Thanks for all suggestions.

Answer 1

Facepy returns native Python objects, not JSON.
response = graph.get('me/photos')
for photo in response['data']:
print photo['source']

Answer 2

You can use simplejson's loads function
from django.utils import simplejson
simplejson.loads(args)
Deserialize s (a str or unicode instance containing a JSON
document) to a Python object.
If ``s`` is a ``str`` instance and is encoded with an ASCII based encoding
other than utf-8 (e.g. latin-1) then an appropriate ``encoding`` name
must be specified. Encodings that are not ASCII based (such as UCS-2)
are not allowed and should be decoded to ``unicode`` first.
``object_hook`` is an optional function that will be called with the
result of any object literal decode (a ``dict``). The return value of
``object_hook`` will be used instead of the ``dict``. This feature
can be used to implement custom decoders (e.g. JSON-RPC class hinting).
``parse_float``, if specified, will be called with the string
of every JSON float to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to
float(num_str). This can be used to use another datatype or parser
for JSON floats (e.g. decimal.Decimal).
``parse_int``, if specified, will be called with the string
of every JSON int to be decoded. By default this is equivalent to
int(num_str). This can be used to use another datatype or parser
for JSON integers (e.g. float).
``parse_constant``, if specified, will be called with one of the
following strings: -Infinity, Infinity, NaN, null, true, false.
This can be used to raise an exception if invalid JSON numbers
are encountered.
To use a custom ``JSONDecoder`` subclass, specify it with the ``cls``
kwarg.