On 04Nov2017 14:01, Sayth Renshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
I want to get a result from a largish json api. One section of the json
structure returns lists of data. I am wanting to get each resulting list
returned.
This is my code.
import json
from pprint import pprint
with open(r'/home/sayth/Projects/results/Canterbury_2017-01-20.json', 'rb') as
f, open('socks3.json','w') as outfile:
to_read = json.load(f)
[...]
meeting_id = to_read["RaceDay"]["Meetings"][0]
result = meeting_id["Races"]
#failing
for item in result:
pprint(["RacingFormGuide"]["Event"]["Runners"])
I'd just keep the interesting runners, along with their race numbers, in a
dict. The enumerate function is handy here. Something like (untested):
runner_lists = {}
for n, item in enumerate(result):
if this one is interested/not-filtered:
runner_lists[n] = result["RacingFormGuide"]["Event"]["Runners"]
and just return runner_lists. That way you know what the race numbers were for
each list of runners.
What is the best way to and return the data?
The basic idea is to make a small data structure of your own (just the
dictionary runner_lists in the example above) and fill it in with the
infomation you care about in a convenient and useful shape. Then just return
the data structure.
The actual data structure will depend on what you need to do with this later.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> (formerly [email protected])
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