Python Parsing JSON With Strange Format

Question

I'm not really sure what to call this it might be a fairly standard JSON format but I've not encountered it before.

Simplified example:

stock: {
    1223581: {
    shoe_id: 1788,
    id: 123
    }
}

My standard would be something like:

for item in json_data['stock']:
  print item['shoe_id']

But the integer (the 1223581 in this example) is dynamic and it's throwing me.

I've tried:

print item[item]['shoe_id']

Since item[item] was dumping the integer. Also tried:

print item[0]['shoe_id']

I could parse out anything before the ':' and parse it that way but that seems like an ugly fix to what I imagine would be a straightforward problem.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

use get() method of dictionary and check for None , instead of directly specifying the key — pushpendra chauhan
– pushpendra chauhan, Commented Dec 1, 2017 at 12:05

Marcin Pietraszek · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-01 12:04:58Z

3

You need to iterate over the items in your json parsed structure - in stock:

stock: {
    1223581: {
        shoe_id: 1788,
        id: 123
    }
}

for item_id, item_spec in item['stock'].items()
    print item_spec['shoe_id']

answered Dec 1, 2017 at 12:04

Marcin Pietraszek

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