import urllib2, json

# This function returns a dictionary with the minecraft server status.
def getstatus():
    f = urllib2.urlopen('http://mc.nexua.org/status.json')
    result = f.read()
    data = json.loads(result)
    return data

# Are we running this as a standalone command line script? lets print some example output.
if __name__ == '__main__':
    status = getstatus()
    print status # Print the whole thing
    print 'Online?', status['online'] # Are we online?
    print 'Last Checked', status['checked'] # Last time we checked it