Getting Keyerror when accessing an element in JSON, python

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I've seen this asked a multitude of times, but I think the JSON I'm looking to access is a bit different. I'm looking at a JSON with this format:

{
  "timestamp": 1589135576,
  "level": 20,
  "gender": "Male",
  "status": {},
  "personalstats": {},
  "attacks": {
    "103307874": {
      "code": "cc7bc5ab6fbd54f49a2e879c49e70183",
      "result": "Mugged",
      "chain": 2,
      "modifiers": {
        "fairFight": 3,
        "war": 1,
        }
      },
    "103320473": {
      "code": "3184c1e2c9662fd70a21f03a637cb02e",
      "result": "Mugged",
      "chain": 1,
    "modifiers": {
      "fairFight": 1.07,
      "war": 1,
      }
    },
  }
}

There are 98 more "attack" below the first two here.

Now I thought I could access the first attacks result with this code, but it results in a key error. Anyone understand why?

currentresponse = requests.get("URL")
json_obj = json.loads(currentresponse.text)
lastresult = json_obj["attacks"][0]["result"]

As a "bonus" I can access the result of the attack through the following code.

json_obj["attacks"]["103320473"]["result"]

Because attacks is not a list.

iamvinitk
– iamvinitk

2020-05-10 19:05:15 +00:00
Commented May 10, 2020 at 19:05 — iamvinitk
– iamvinitk, Commented May 10, 2020 at 19:05

Ahasanul Haque · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-10 19:05:55Z

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Yeah, you can't access with json_obj["attacks"][0], because it's not a list, and hence doesn't have indexing like a list. These are nested dicts, so you have to access them by dict rules (access by key)

answered May 10, 2020 at 19:05

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Mixy Over a year ago

Thanks! As I understand it dicts are inherently unordered, which is somewhat confirmed by the timestamps for the attacks not being in order. Is there any way I can sort and access the attack with the highest "timestamp" (its in the json but I cut it out of OP for readability) directly? I've worked my way around it by storing all attacks in my db and finding the newest one there, but its not very scalable or clean I think

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