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AGH_TORN
AGH_TORN

Reputation: 833

Getting types of keys within dictionary/json

I have a JSON response that I'm looking to parse through. I'd like to get all of the keys that have a dictionary of values and are not just a string.

JSON:

[
    {
        "style": 7,
        "accessDate": "2017-06-16T12:52:18Z",
        "name": "Starbucks",
        "location": {
            "latitude": 40.767372,
            "longitude": -111.891367,
        },
        "abstract": {
            "type": 5
        }
    }
]

Basically I'd like to get a list of every key that has a dictionary (in this case, location and abstract). I tried using type() but this just returns a string because...obviously.

for key in myjson:
    print(type(key))

Is there an alternative to finding where these might exist within a json?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 118

Answers (2)

Rakesh
Rakesh

Reputation: 82765

Use isinstance

Ex:

j = [
    {
        "style": 7,
        "accessDate": "2017-06-16T12:52:18Z",
        "name": "Starbucks",
        "location": {
            "latitude": 40.767372,
            "longitude": -111.891367,
        },
        "abstract": {
            "type": 5
        }
    }
]

for i in j:
    for key, value in i.items():
        if isinstance(value, dict):
            print(key)

Output:

location
abstract

Upvotes: 1

sshow
sshow

Reputation: 9094

You can use isinstance to see if a value is an instance of a class

for k, v in d.items():
    if isinstance(v, dict):
        print(k)

Upvotes: 1

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