how to correctly print json response using python

Question

I have json arrays as follows

payload.json

{"provision":"provision section 1", "subsets": [{"item":"milk"},{"payments": [{"price": "170 usd"}]}, {"item":"sugar"},{"payments": [{"price": "70 usd"}]}, {"item":"tea"},{"payments": [{"price": "90 usd"}]}]} 

Here is the code am using to get the json response

import json import requests r = requests.get('http://localhost/payload.json') stat=r.status_code head=r.headers['content-type'] encode=r.encoding texting=r.text result=r.json() print(stat) print(head) print(texting) print(result) 

I can successfully get the results in json

My requirements: How do I successfully loops to print out values for Provisions, item and price. If i try something like print(result.provision), it will display error dict object has no attribute provision

Answer 1

At that point you don't have a JSON object anymore, JSON was simply the way it was transported between the server and you; r.json() translates it into a Python dictionary.

You access keys of a Python dictionary with e.g. result['provision'] and you can print that.

That said, as you also tagged this with Django, inside a Django template you would still use result.provision; that tries several things until it gets a result it can print, including the case where result is a dictionary and provision a key of it.

Answer 2

The error you got:

dict object has no attribute provision

The reason:

Since dict does not have any attribute as such.

Also:

As stated already by @RemcoGerlich, now that it is a dict you may access its elemenets by:

result = {"provision":"provision section 1", "subsets": [{"item":"milk"},{"payments": [{"price": "170 usd"}]}, {"item":"sugar"},{"payments": [{"price": "70 usd"}]}, {"item":"tea"},{"payments": [{"price": "90 usd"}]}]} print(result['provision']) print(result['subsets']) 

OR

for k,v in result.items(): print(k,v) 

OUTPUT:

provision provision section 1 subsets [{'item': 'milk'}, {'payments': [{'price': '170 usd'}]}, {'item': 'sugar'}, {'payments': [{'price': '70 usd'}]}, {'item': 'tea'}, {'payments': [{'price': '90 usd'}]}] 

EDIT:

Since the dict_ has elements with lists:

result = {"provision":"provision section 1", "subsets": [ {"item":"milk"}, {"payments": [{"price": "170 usd"}]}, {"item":"sugar"}, {"payments": [{"price": "70 usd"}]}, {"item":"tea"}, {"payments": [{"price": "90 usd"}]} ] } 

Let's say you want to get the first element inside subsets:

print(result.get('subsets')[0]) # {'item': 'milk'} 

Where as;

print(result.get('subsets')[0].values()) # dict_values(['milk'])