Use Map Quest to geocode an address. You will need to sign up for a key here: http://developer.mapquest.com/

gistfile1.txt

def geocodemq(address):
    key = ""
    vals = {'location': address}
    qstr = urllib.urlencode(vals)
    #print "QSTR = '{0}'".format(qstr)
    reqstr = "http://www.mapquestapi.com/geocoding/v1/address?key={0}&outFormat=json&maxResults=1&{1}".format(key,qstr)
    #print "Sending: {0}".format(reqstr)
    _json = simplejson.loads(urllib.urlopen(reqstr).read())
    return _json

def pulldatamq(_json):
    print _json

    fulladdress = ""
    lat = ""
    lng = ""
    zipcode = ""
    streetnumber = ""
    route = ""
    locality = ""
    state = ""
    country = ""

    try:
        #print _json['results'][0]
        #treet = _json['results'][0]['locations'][0]['street']
        town = _json['results'][0]['locations'][0]['adminArea5']
        state = _json['results'][0]['locations'][0]['adminArea3']
        zipcode = _json['results'][0]['locations'][0]['postalCode'].split('-')[0]
        fulladdress = ", {0}, {1}, {2}".format(town,state,zipcode)
        lat = _json['results'][0]['locations'][0]['latLng']['lat']
        lng = _json['results'][0]['locations'][0]['latLng']['lng']
        route = _json['results'][0]['locations'][0]['street'].split(" ")[0]
        route = "".join(_json['results'][0]['locations'][0]['street'].split(" ")[1:])
        locality = _json['results'][0]['locations'][0]['adminArea5']
        country = "US"
        valid = True
    except:
        valid = False

    retval = valid,fulladdress,lat,lng,zipcode,streetnumber,route,locality,state,country
    print retval
    return retval