Simple Discogs Python API Client

discogs_api_example.py

import urllib2, gzip, cStringIO

url = 'http://www.discogs.com/release/123?f=xml&api_key=1111'
headers = {'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip', 'User-Agent': 'MyDiscogsClient/1.0 +http://mydiscogsclient.org'}
request = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)

try:
    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    data = response.read()
    try:
        data = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj = cStringIO.StringIO(data)).read()
    except IOError:
        pass
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
    data = e.read()

print data