Latitude and Longitude of the address using Google Maps Gecoding API

geocode.py

import urllib2 as u
import json

def GeoCode(address):
    """Returns Latitude and Longitude of the address using
    Google Maps Gecoding API
    """
    api = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address="
    address = str(address.replace(" ","+"))
    url = api + address + "&sensor=false"

    f = u.urlopen(url) 
    j = f.read()    #json

    d = json.JSONDecoder()
    location = d.decode(j)

    l = location['results'][0] #dictionary
    lat = str(l['geometry']['location']['lat'])
    lng = str(l['geometry']['location']['lng'])
    
    f.close()
    return lat,lng