Parsing JSON with Python Requests for Django App

Question

I'm having trouble parsing this request. It looks like this:

{"randomnumber": {"id":blah, "name":blah, ... }, "randomnumber22": { ... }}

Using python requests, I retrieve the url that returns that data, and decode it so I can try to loop through the fields. I then endup with something like:

{u'randomnumber': {u'id':u'blah', ... }, u'randomnumber22': { .. }}

And when I try to use a for-loop to stroll through the data, it complains that I need to use numbers for string indices. How can I handle this problem properly?

My simplified code:

import requests
network = requests.get('http://example.com')
networkoffers = network.json()
for offers in networkoffers:
    offer['name']

So I'm trying to access network['randomnumber']['name'], going by my initial example of the request data.

Justin O Barber · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-13 05:36:34Z

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You are iterating through the dict's keys, so you need to account for this in your for loop like this:

for offer in networkoffers:  # will look through keys, which are strings and not dicts
    networkoffers[offer]['name']

networkoffers is a dict, and offers (or offer, note the discrepancy) is a key (a string). offers['name'] means nothing to Python, since offers is a string. But networkoffers[offers] is a dict (a value of networkoffers).

edited Jan 13, 2014 at 5:36

answered Jan 13, 2014 at 5:13

Justin O Barber

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