Difficulty w/json keys

[Jim Byrnes]

Red wrote:
> My apologies for what is probably a simple question to most on this
> group. However, I am new to python and very new to json.
>
> I am trying to read in a json file from a twitter download. There are,
> generally, two types of lines: those lines with "text" and the other
> lines.  I am only interested in the lines with "text".  I am also only
> interested in lines with "lang":"en", but I haven't gotten far enough
> to implement that condition in the code snippets below.
>
> I have gotten Option 2 below to sort of work.  It works fine for
> 'text', but doesn't work for 'lang'.
>
> FWIW I am using Python 2.6.4
>
> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong with the following code
> snippets and/or point me toward an example of an implementation?
>
> Many thanks for your patience.
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> import sys
> import json
>
> f = open(sys.argv[1])
>
> #option 1
>
> for line in f:
> 	j = json.loads(line)
> 	try:
> 		'text' in j
> 		print "TEXT:  ", j
> 	except:
> 		print "EXCEPTION:   ", j
> 		continue
> 	else:
> 		text=j['text']
> ----snip --------
>
>
>
>
> #option 2	does basically the same thing as option 1 , but also looks
> for 'lang'
>
> for line in f:
> 	j = json.loads(line)
> 	if 'text' in j:
> 		if 'lang' in j:
> 			lang = j['lang']
> 			print "language", lang
> 		text = j['text']
> ----snip --------
>
> ------ Two Sample Twitter lines -------------
>
> {"text":"tech managers what size for your teams? better to have 10-20
> ppl per manager or 2-5 and have the managers be more hands
> on?","in_reply_to_user_id":null,"coordinates":null,"geo":null,"created_at":"Thu
> Apr 22 17:35:42 +0000 2010","contributors":null,"source":"<a href=
> \"http://twitterfeed.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">twitterfeed</
> a>","in_reply_to_status_id":null,"place":null,"truncated":false,"in_reply_to_screen_name":null,"user":
> {"favourites_count":
> 0,"profile_text_color":"000000","time_zone":"Eastern Time (US&
> Canada)","created_at":"Tue Oct 27 19:50:51 +0000
> 2009","statuses_count":
> 286,"notifications":null,"profile_link_color":"0000ff","description":"I
> write code and talk to people.
> ","lang":"en","profile_background_image_url":"http://s.twimg.com/a/
> 1271891196/images/themes/theme1/bg.png","profile_image_url":"http://
> s.twimg.com/a/1271891196/images/
> default_profile_0_normal.png","location":"Near the
> water.","contributors_enabled":false,"following":null,"geo_enabled":false,"profile_sidebar_fill_color":"e0ff92","profile_background_tile":false,"screen_name":"sstatik","profile_sidebar_border_color":"87bc44","followers_count":
> 40,"protected":false,"verified":false,"url":"http://
> elliotmurphy.com/","name":"statik","friends_count":18,"id":
> 85646316,"utc_offset":-18000,"profile_background_color":"9ae4e8"},"id":
> 12651537502,"favorited":false}
> {"delete":{"status":{"id":12650137902,"user_id":128090723}}}

I can't help you directly with your problem but have you seen this:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2010/04/tutorial-use-twitters-new-real-time-stream-api-in-python.ars

Regards,  Jim