JSON Extraction in Python.

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Trying to get specific data through my JSON format and I'm unable to do so. Trying to do it in Python and I want more than 1 thing printed out. Im providing a example code to make it clear. The name of the file is blah

{ u'info': { u'more_info': { u'xyz': u'[]',
                           u'xyz': None,
                           u'xyz': 00000,
                           u'description': u'blah blah blah',
                           u'xyz': 0000,
                           u'url':
                           u'xyz': False,
                           u'name': u'BLAH BLAH',
                           u'xyz': 10,
                           u'xyz': 1,

I refer to the documentation, but that still fails me.

I tried this

for xyz in blah['info']['more_info']:
fs = xyz['name']['description']['url']

The error is that: "TypeError: String indices must be integer"

Please help.

Careful with your indentation. It's not the cause of the error you're seeing, but the line starting fs = should be indented. — Basic
– Basic, Commented Sep 29, 2015 at 23:16

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-29 23:03:16Z

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Iterating over a dict yields keys. But since you have a dict, just access the items directly.

print blah[u'info'][u'more_info'][u'name']
print blah[u'info'][u'more_info'][u'description']
print blah[u'info'][u'more_info'][u'url']

answered Sep 29, 2015 at 23:03

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ShadowRanger Over a year ago

And to save repeated lookup costs (and typing), you can assign a local with the results of the first two lookups, more_info = blah[u'info'][u'more_info'] then use the cached value repeatedly, print more_info[u'name'], print more_info['description'], etc.

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