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Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects

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Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
> On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 1:35:43 PM UTC-4, Rustom Mody wrote:
>> On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:51:11 PM UTC+5:30, Anurag Patibandla wrote:
>> 
>> > Here is my sample dict if that helps:
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>> > json = {"1": {"Status": "Submitted", "Startdate": ["01/01/2011"], "Enddate": ["02/02/2012"], "Job_ID": 1, "m_Quantile": "80", "m_Controller": "Python", "m_Method": "Distributed", "Allocation_3": ["50"], "Allocation_2": ["30"], "Allocation_1": ["20"], "Note": "", "m_Iterations": "1000", "submit": ["Submit"], "VaR": "", "Asset_2": ["YHOO"], "Asset_3": ["CAT"], "Asset_1": ["AAPL"]}, "3": {"Status": "Submitted", "Startdate": ["01/01/2011"], "Enddate": ["02/02/2012"], "Job_ID": 3, "m_Quantile": "90", "m_Controller": "Python", "m_Method": "Distributed", "Allocation_3": ["50"], "Allocation_2": ["30"], "Allocation_1": ["20"], "Note": "", "m_Iterations": "1000", "submit": ["Submit"], "VaR": "", "Asset_2": ["YHOO"], "Asset_3": ["CAT"], "Asset_1": ["AAPL"]}, "2": {"Status": "Submitted", "Startdat
>  e": ["01/01/2011"], "Enddate": ["02/02/2012"], "Job_ID": 2, "m_Quantile": "80", "m_Controller": "Python", "m_Method": "GARCH", "Allocation_3": ["50"], "Allocation_2": ["30"], "Allocation_1": ["20"],
>   "Note": "", "m_Iterations": "1000", "submit": ["Submit"], "VaR": "", "Asset_2": ["YHOO"], "Asset_3": ["CAT"], "Asset_1": ["AAPL"]}, "4": {"Status": "Submitted", "Startdate": ["01/01/2011"], "Enddate": ["02/02/2012"], "Job_ID": 4, "m_Quantile": "90", "m_Controller": "Python", "m_Method": "GARCH", "Allocation_3": ["50"], "Allocation_2": ["30"], "Allocation_1": ["20"], "Note": "", "m_Iterations": "1000", "submit": ["Submit"], "VaR": "", "Asset_2": ["YHOO"], "Asset_3": ["CAT"], "Asset_1": ["AAPL"]}}
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>> 
>> Right
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>> So your dict (which is dicts !) we have
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>> >>> json.keys()
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>> ['1', '3', '2', '4']
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>> And so
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>> >>> json[0]
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>> Traceback (most recent call last):
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>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
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>> KeyError: 0
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>> >>> json['0']
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>> Traceback (most recent call last):
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>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
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>> KeyError: '0'
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>> >>> json['1']
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>> {'Status': 'Submitted', 'Startdate': ['01/01/2011'], 'Enddate': ['02/02/2012'], 'Job_ID': 1, 'm_Quantile': '80', 'Allocation_3': ['50'], 'm_Method': 'Distributed', 'm_Controller': 'Python', 'Allocation_2': ['30'], 'Allocation_1': ['20'], 'Asset_2': ['YHOO'], 'Note': '', 'VaR': '', 'submit': ['Submit'], 'm_Iterations': '1000', 'Asset_3': ['CAT'], 'Asset_1': ['AAPL']}
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>> IOW 0 is not a key 
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>> Neither is '0' (the string containing the char 0)
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>> But the string '1' is a valid key
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> Yes, but I can't just do 'json['1']', at the end of the code I need to do a 'dicts['1']', or 'dicts['2']', to get the smaller dicts which still gives me a 'KeyError: 1'
> 

Did you read the code I supplied, where you would wind up with
 three variables, dict1, ict2, and dict3? Just before assigning
 those, I had a LIST of dicts.  Such a list can be accessed by
 threedicts [0] to get the first dictionary, threedicts [1] to get
 the next, etc.


-- 
DaveA

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Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com - 2014-10-14 08:57 -0700
  Re:Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-10-14 13:02 -0400
    Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> - 2014-10-14 14:15 -0700
      Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> - 2014-10-14 16:32 -0500
        Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> - 2014-10-14 14:36 -0700
      Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-10-14 23:58 +0100
  Re:Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-10-14 21:57 -0400
    Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-14 19:32 -0700
  Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> - 2014-10-14 20:40 -0700
    Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-14 21:50 -0700
    Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-10-15 13:43 -0400
      Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 11:35 -0700
  Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> - 2014-10-14 20:41 -0700
  Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 08:52 -0700
    Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 09:06 -0700
  Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 09:28 -0700
    Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 09:43 -0700
      Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 09:59 -0700
  Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 09:57 -0700
    Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-10-15 13:48 -0400
  Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 10:00 -0700
    Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 10:10 -0700
      Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 10:20 -0700
        Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-10-15 13:50 -0400
  Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 10:20 -0700
    Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 10:35 -0700
      Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatibandla7@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 11:27 -0700
        Re: Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-10-15 18:25 -0400

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