Anurag Patibandla <anuragpatiband...@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: >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > 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"]}} >> >> >> >> Right >> >> So your dict (which is dicts !) we have >> >> >>> json.keys() >> >> ['1', '3', '2', '4'] >> >> >> >> And so >> >> >> >> >>> json[0] >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> >> KeyError: 0 >> >> >> >> >>> json['0'] >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> >> KeyError: '0' >> >> >> >> >>> json['1'] >> >> {'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']} >> >> >> >> IOW 0 is not a key >> >> Neither is '0' (the string containing the char 0) >> >> But the string '1' is a valid key > > 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list