JSON result parsing
Ben Bacarisse
ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk
Sat Jul 30 12:20:05 EDT 2016
TUA <kai.peters at gmail.com> writes:
> Calls to my REST api may either return a dict (for single results) or
> a list of dicts (for multiple results).
I think John's answer missed this part.
> I receive these results using the requests library.
>
> I want to retrieve the value for a key 'ID' but only if I have a
> single result and, obviously, if ID is present.
If r is the result of the request, just testing
if 'ID' in r: ... whatever ...
would do. The result will be False if r is a list or the single result
does not have an ID.
> How can I do this with pythonic elegance?
Ah, that I leave to others.
--
Ben.
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