Check out the section labeled "Specializing JSON object decoding" in the json module docs ( http://docs.python.org/library/json.html for Python v2.7.3 )- there's a section on specialized object decoding. You can use that to decode a JSON object into a specific Python type.
You can do it in one line, using namedtuple and object_hook.
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