Parse JSON in python to a dictionary

Question

A bit lost after much research. My code below parses the JSON to a dictionary I have thought using json load

response = json.load(MSW) # -->Will take a JSON String & Turn it into a python dict

Using the iteration below I return a series like this which is fine

{u'swell': {u'components': {u'primary': {u'direction': 222.5}}}}
{u'swell': {u'components': {u'primary': {u'direction': 221.94}}}}
ourResult = response
for rs in ourResult:
 print rs

But how oh how do I access the 222.5 value. The above appears to just be one long string eg response[1] and not a dictionary structure at all.

In short all I need is the numerical value (which I assume is a part of that sting) so I can test conditions in the rest of my code. Is is a dictionary? With thanks as new and lost

• Daniel Roseman: This question does not appear to be about parsing JSON, but about navigating nested Python dictionaries.

Answer 1

You have to use python syntax as follows:

>>> print response['swell']['components']['primary']['direction']
222.5

• user3787389: Many thanks. Seems so obvious now. Appreciate the support. I hope to be able to answer some questions here i future.
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Answer 2

Just access the nested dictionaries, unwrapping each layer with an additional key:

for rs in ourResult:
 print rs['components']['primary']['direction']