The doc says a list is returned however, if you look at the data it should be a list of dictionaries objects which we can cycle through easily in Python. I wanted a simple comma-delimited line for each state.

The code shows a long single string object versus a list. How to do we use this in code?

Generic Code: convert list to empty then traverse

data_list = []
data_list.append(data.decode(“utf-8”))
…

#loop the Dictionary item in returned message?
for itemDict in data_list:

        # loop thru key/val pair looking for specific items
        for k, v in itemDict.items():
                print(str(k) + "=" + str(v), end=',')