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Re: JSON result parsing

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: JSON result parsing
Date	2016-07-30 17:20 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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TUA <kai.peters@gmail.com> writes:

> Calls to my REST api may either return a dict (for single results) or
> a list of dicts (for multiple results).

I think John's answer missed this part.

> I receive these results using the requests library.
>
> I want to retrieve the value for a key 'ID' but only if I have a
> single result and, obviously, if ID is present.

If r is the result of the request, just testing

  if 'ID' in r: ... whatever ...

would do.  The result will be False if r is a list or the single result
does not have an ID.

> How can I do this with pythonic elegance?

Ah, that I leave to others.

-- 
Ben.

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JSON result parsing TUA <kai.peters@gmail.com> - 2016-07-29 16:45 -0700
  Re: JSON result parsing John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2016-07-30 03:25 +0000
  Re: JSON result parsing Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-07-30 17:20 +0100

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