Accessing world bank api using python

World bank have recently release their data and you can access it through
http://data.worldbank.org/

It also includes API access through it. Which is a web api. Either way it is pretty easy to access from my 5 minute toying around. My experiment attempting to find population of malaysia,

import urllibimport urllib2

# here i use json, but the api also support xml

import json

# for url parameter, just to make it look niceparam = urllib.urlencode({'api_key':'your api key','format':'json'})

# get population of malaysia

url = 'http://open.worldbank.org/countries/my/indicators/SP.POP.TOTL'

data = urllib2.urlopen(url+'?'+ param)result = json.load(data)

# btw result[0] is the data on the pages etc, data start at index 1

print result[1]

This is the result, after i clean up my codes and clarify it