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:
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> > 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", "Startdate": ["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
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'
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