Separating URL retrieval and JSON parsing

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/jfr_playoff/settings.py b/jfr_playoff/settings.py
index acfd417..1f97e5e 100644
--- a/jfr_playoff/settings.py
+++ b/jfr_playoff/settings.py
@@ -25,9 +25,8 @@ class PlayoffSettings(object):
                        new_config=None, remote_url=None,
                        overwrite=True):
         try:
-            remote_config = new_config if new_config is not None else \
-                            json.loads(urllib.urlopen(
-                                remote_url).read().decode('utf-8-sig'))
+            remote_file = urllib.urlopen(remote_url).read().decode('utf-8-sig')
+            remote_config = new_config if new_config is not None else json.loads(remote_file)
             for key, value in remote_config.iteritems():
                 if (key not in base_config) or overwrite:
                     base_config[key] = value