Not sure how to debug this?

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You know that the url address is wrong googleis?
API doc.
For this use Requests.

Here a demo,i use string formatting to make changes in url address.

import requests

address = '1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View'
api_key = 'Your API key'
url = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address={}{}'.format(''.join(address.split()), api_key)
url_get = requests.get(url)
loc = url_get.json()

What you get back is a Python dictionary also contain list when come from JSON.
Test run.

>>> loc['results'][0]['geometry']
{'bounds': {'northeast': {'lat': 37.42198310000001, 'lng': -122.0853195},
            'southwest': {'lat': 37.4214139, 'lng': -122.0860042}},
 'location': {'lat': 37.4216548, 'lng': -122.0856374},
 'location_type': 'ROOFTOP',
 'viewport': {'northeast': {'lat': 37.4230474802915, 'lng': -122.0843128697085},
              'southwest': {'lat': 37.4203495197085,
                            'lng': -122.0870108302915}}}

>>> loc['results'][0]['geometry']['location']
{'lat': 37.4216548, 'lng': -122.0856374}

>>> loc['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat']
37.4216548