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Parsing a single-level JSON file

John Gordon gordon at panix.com
Fri Nov 18 13:33:09 EST 2016 
In <b9f6b419-7923-4c51-ba0d-c3bed68b0bf2 at googlegroups.com> mike.reider at gmail.com writes:

> Im reading in a JSON file that looks like this
> ... snip ...
> Lets say I want to get the ID # of MyField1, how can I parse this with
> json lib? Theyre all on the same level, not sure how to target it to go
> to MyField1 and get "id" value. 

That data looks like a list of dictionaries:

    import json

    with open("json.dat", "r") as fp:
        data = json.load(fp)
        for item in data:
            if item['name'] == 'myField2':
                print item['id']

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