parsing json into dictionary in python

Question

I have the following json which I am trying to parse into a dictionary so that I get just the queries in the "Queries" that is query 1 and query 2

 [ 
 { "A": "xyz", 
 "B": "this is xyz",
 "Queries": [
 "Query 1",
 "Query 2" 
 ] 
 }
 ]

I am using:

import json 
js=open('C://localpath//files.json') 
data=json.load(js) //assuming that json.load() will make data as dictionary correct me if i am wrong

data.get("Queries") ives the following error

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'get'

How do I get data to be a dictionary and not a list and use "Queries" to just get the queries out of json, I don't want to convert it to a list. Is there a way to directly treat it as a dictionary?

Answer 1

try the following

js = open('C:/temp/json.txt').read()
data = json.loads(js)
data[0]['A']
u'xyz'

Answer 2

data is a list of dictionaries. You would need to index the dictionary out of the list

data[0].get('Queries')

Or if there are multiple dictionaries, you could use a list comprehension to get the queries from each dictionary

[d.get('Queries') for d in data]