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Is there a way to add curly brackets around a list of dictionaries already existing within a JSON file?

I currently have two JSONS that I want to merge into one singular JSON, additionally I want to add in a slight change.
Firstly, these are the two JSONS in question.
An intents JSON:
[
{
"ID": "G1",
"intent": "password_reset",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I forgot my password"
},
{
"text": "I can't log in"
},
{
"text": "I can't access the site"
},
{
"text": "My log in is failing"
},
{
"text": "I need to reset my password"
}
]
},
{
"ID": "G2",
"intent": "account_closure",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I want to close my account"
},
{
"text": "I want to terminate my account"
}
]
},
{
"ID": "G3",
"intent": "account_creation",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I want to open an account"
},
{
"text": "Create account"
}
]
},
{
"ID": "G4",
"intent": "complaint",
"examples": [
{
"text": "A member of staff was being rude"
},
{
"text": "I have a complaint"
}
]
}
]
and an entities JSON:
[
{
"ID": "K1",
"entity": "account_type",
"values": [
{
"type": "synonyms",
"value": "business",
"synonyms": [
"corporate"
]
},
{
"type": "synonyms",
"value": "personal",
"synonyms": [
"vanguard",
"student"
]
}
]
},
{
"ID": "K2",
"entity": "beverage",
"values": [
{
"type": "synonyms",
"value": "hot",
"synonyms": [
"heated",
"warm"
]
},
{
"type": "synonyms",
"value": "cold",
"synonyms": [
"ice",
"freezing"
]
}
]
}
]
The expected outcome is to create a JSON file that mimics this structure:
{
"intents": [
{
"intent": "password_reset",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I forgot my password"
},
{
"text": "I want to reset my password"
}
],
"description": "Reset a user password"
}
],
"entities": [
{
"entity": "account_type",
"values": [
{
"type": "synonyms",
"value": "business",
"synonyms": [
"company",
"corporate",
"enterprise"
]
},
{
"type": "synonyms",
"value": "personal",
"synonyms": []
}
],
"fuzzy_match": true
}
],
"metadata": {
"api_version": {
"major_version": "v2",
"minor_version": "2018-11-08"
}
},
"dialog_nodes": [
{
"type": "standard",
"title": "anything_else",
"output": {
"generic": [
{
"values": [
{
"text": "I didn't understand. You can try rephrasing."
},
{
"text": "Can you reword your statement? I'm not understanding."
},
{
"text": "I didn't get your meaning."
}
],
"response_type": "text",
"selection_policy": "sequential"
}
]
},
"conditions": "anything_else",
"dialog_node": "Anything else",
"previous_sibling": "node_4_1655399659061",
"disambiguation_opt_out": true
},
{
"type": "event_handler",
"output": {
"generic": [
{
"title": "What type of account do you hold with us?",
"options": [
{
"label": "Personal",
"value": {
"input": {
"text": "personal"
}
}
},
{
"label": "Business",
"value": {
"input": {
"text": "business"
}
}
}
],
"response_type": "option"
}
]
},
"parent": "slot_9_1655398217028",
"event_name": "focus",
"dialog_node": "handler_6_1655398217052",
"previous_sibling": "handler_7_1655398217052"
},
{
"type": "event_handler",
"output": {},
"parent": "slot_9_1655398217028",
"context": {
"account_type": "#account_type"
},
"conditions": "#account_type",
"event_name": "input",
"dialog_node": "handler_7_1655398217052"
},
{
"type": "standard",
"title": "business_account",
"output": {
"generic": [
{
"values": [
{
"text": "We have notified your corporate security team, they will be in touch to reset your password."
}
],
"response_type": "text",
"selection_policy": "sequential"
}
]
},
"parent": "node_3_1655397279884",
"next_step": {
"behavior": "jump_to",
"selector": "body",
"dialog_node": "node_4_1655399659061"
},
"conditions": "#account_type:business",
"dialog_node": "node_1_1655399028379",
"previous_sibling": "node_3_1655399027429"
},
{
"type": "standard",
"title": "intent_collection",
"output": {
"generic": [
{
"values": [
{
"text": "Thank you for confirming that you want to reset your password."
}
],
"response_type": "text",
"selection_policy": "sequential"
}
]
},
"next_step": {
"behavior": "jump_to",
"selector": "body",
"dialog_node": "node_3_1655397279884"
},
"conditions": "#password_reset",
"dialog_node": "node_3_1655396920143",
"previous_sibling": "Welcome"
},
{
"type": "frame",
"title": "account_type_confirmation",
"output": {
"generic": [
{
"values": [
{
"text": "Thank you"
}
],
"response_type": "text",
"selection_policy": "sequential"
}
]
},
"parent": "node_3_1655396920143",
"context": {},
"next_step": {
"behavior": "skip_user_input"
},
"conditions": "#password_reset",
"dialog_node": "node_3_1655397279884"
},
{
"type": "standard",
"title": "personal_account",
"output": {
"generic": [
{
"values": [
{
"text": "We have sent you an email with a password reset link."
}
],
"response_type": "text",
"selection_policy": "sequential"
}
]
},
"parent": "node_3_1655397279884",
"next_step": {
"behavior": "jump_to",
"selector": "body",
"dialog_node": "node_4_1655399659061"
},
"conditions": "#account_type:personal",
"dialog_node": "node_3_1655399027429"
},
{
"type": "standard",
"title": "reset_confirmation",
"output": {
"generic": [
{
"values": [
{
"text": "Do you need assistance with anything else today?"
}
],
"response_type": "text",
"selection_policy": "sequential"
}
]
},
"digress_in": "does_not_return",
"dialog_node": "node_4_1655399659061",
"previous_sibling": "node_3_1655396920143"
},
{
"type": "slot",
"output": {},
"parent": "node_3_1655397279884",
"variable": "$account_type",
"dialog_node": "slot_9_1655398217028",
"previous_sibling": "node_1_1655399028379"
},
{
"type": "standard",
"title": "welcome",
"output": {
"generic": [
{
"values": [
{
"text": "Hello. How can I help you?"
}
],
"response_type": "text",
"selection_policy": "sequential"
}
]
},
"conditions": "welcome",
"dialog_node": "Welcome"
}
],
"counterexamples": [],
"system_settings": {
"off_topic": {
"enabled": true
},
"disambiguation": {
"prompt": "Did you mean:",
"enabled": true,
"randomize": true,
"max_suggestions": 5,
"suggestion_text_policy": "title",
"none_of_the_above_prompt": "None of the above"
},
"human_agent_assist": {
"prompt": "Did you mean:"
},
"intent_classification": {
"training_backend_version": "v2"
},
"spelling_auto_correct": true
},
"learning_opt_out": false,
"name": "Reset Password",
"language": "en",
"description": "Basic Password Reset Request"
}
So what I am missing in my original files, is essentially:
"intents":
and for the entities file:
"entities"
at the start of each list of dictionaries.
Additionally, I would need to wrap the whole thing in curly braces to comply with json formatting.
As seen, the final goal is not just appending these two to one another but the file technically continues with some other JSON code that I have yet to write and deal with.
My question now is as follows; by what method can I either add in these words and the braces to the individual files, then combine them into a singular JSON or alternatively by what method can I read in these files and combine them with the changes all in one go?
The new output file closing on a curly brace after the entities list of dicts is an acceptable outcome for me at the time, so that I can continue to make changes and hopefully further learn from this how to do these changes in future when I get there.
TIA

JSON is only a string format, you can it load in a language structure, in python that is list and dict, do what you need then dump it back, so you don't "add strings" and "add brackets", on modify the structure
file = 'intents.txt'
intents = json.load(open(file)) # load a list
file = 'entities.txt'
entities = json.load(open(file)) # load a list
# create a dict
content = {
"intents": intents,
"entities": entities
}
json.dump(content, open(file, "w"))

If you're reading all the json in as a string, you can just prepend "{'intents':" to the start and append a closing "}".
myJson = "your json string"
myWrappedJson = '{"intents":' + myJson + "}"

Why am I receiving an error when attempting to parse JSON object within for loop?

Everything with my script runs fine until I try to run it through a for loop. Specifically, when I attempt to index a specific array within the object. Before I get to the The script is intended to grab the delivery date for each tracking number in my list.
This is my script:
import requests
import json
TrackList = ['1Z3X756E0310496105','1ZX0373R0303581450','1ZX0373R0103574417']
url = 'https://onlinetools.ups.com/rest/Track'
para1 = '...beginning of JSON request string...'
para2 = '...end of JSON request string...'
for TrackNum in TrackList:
parameters = para1+TrackNum+para2
resp = requests.post(url = url, data = parameters, verify=False)
data = json.loads(resp.text)
DelDate = data['TrackResponse']['Shipment']['Package'][0]['Activity'][0]['Date']
print(DelDate)
JSON API Response (if needed):
{
"TrackResponse": {
"Response": {
"ResponseStatus": {
"Code": "1",
"Description": "Success"
},
"TransactionReference": {
"CustomerContext": "Analytics Inquiry"
}
},
"Shipment": {
"InquiryNumber": {
"Code": "01",
"Description": "ShipmentIdentificationNumber",
"Value": "1ZX0373R0103574417"
},
"Package": {
"Activity": [
{
"ActivityLocation": {
"Address": {
"City": "OKLAHOMA CITY",
"CountryCode": "US",
"PostalCode": "73128",
"StateProvinceCode": "OK"
},
"Code": "M3",
"Description": "Front Desk",
"SignedForByName": "CUMMINGS"
},
"Date": "20190520",
"Status": {
"Code": "9E",
"Description": "Delivered",
"Type": "D"
},
"Time": "091513"
},
{
"ActivityLocation": {
"Address": {
"City": "Oklahoma City",
"CountryCode": "US",
"StateProvinceCode": "OK"
},
"Description": "Front Desk"
},
"Date": "20190520",
"Status": {
"Code": "OT",
"Description": "Out For Delivery Today",
"Type": "I"
},
"Time": "085943"
},
{
"ActivityLocation": {
"Address": {
"City": "Oklahoma City",
"CountryCode": "US",
"StateProvinceCode": "OK"
},
"Description": "Front Desk"
},
"Date": "20190520",
"Status": {
"Code": "DS",
"Description": "Destination Scan",
"Type": "I"
},
"Time": "011819"
},
{
"ActivityLocation": {
"Address": {
"City": "Oklahoma City",
"CountryCode": "US",
"StateProvinceCode": "OK"
},
"Description": "Front Desk"
},
"Date": "20190519",
"Status": {
"Code": "AR",
"Description": "Arrival Scan",
"Type": "I"
},
"Time": "235100"
},
{
"ActivityLocation": {
"Address": {
"City": "DFW Airport",
"CountryCode": "US",
"StateProvinceCode": "TX"
},
"Description": "Front Desk"
},
"Date": "20190519",
"Status": {
"Code": "DP",
"Description": "Departure Scan",
"Type": "I"
},
"Time": "195500"
},
{
"ActivityLocation": {
"Address": {
"City": "DFW Airport",
"CountryCode": "US",
"StateProvinceCode": "TX"
},
"Description": "Front Desk"
},
"Date": "20190517",
"Status": {
"Code": "OR",
"Description": "Origin Scan",
"Type": "I"
},
"Time": "192938"
},
{
"ActivityLocation": {
"Address": {
"CountryCode": "US"
},
"Description": "Front Desk"
},
"Date": "20190517",
"Status": {
"Code": "MP",
"Description": "Order Processed: Ready for UPS",
"Type": "M"
},
"Time": "184621"
}
],
"PackageWeight": {
"UnitOfMeasurement": {
"Code": "LBS"
},
"Weight": "2.00"
},
"ReferenceNumber": [
{
"Code": "01",
"Value": "8472745558"
},
{
"Code": "01",
"Value": "5637807:1007379402:BN81-17077A:1"
},
{
"Code": "01",
"Value": "5637807"
}
],
"TrackingNumber": "1ZX0373R0103574417"
},
"PickupDate": "20190517",
"Service": {
"Code": "001",
"Description": "UPS Next Day Air"
},
"ShipmentAddress": [
{
"Address": {
"AddressLine": "S 600 ROYAL LN",
"City": "COPPELL",
"CountryCode": "US",
"PostalCode": "750193827",
"StateProvinceCode": "TX"
},
"Type": {
"Code": "01",
"Description": "Shipper Address"
}
},
{
"Address": {
"City": "OKLAHOMA CITY",
"CountryCode": "US",
"PostalCode": "73128",
"StateProvinceCode": "OK"
},
"Type": {
"Code": "02",
"Description": "ShipTo Address"
}
}
],
"ShipmentWeight": {
"UnitOfMeasurement": {
"Code": "LBS"
},
"Weight": "2.00"
},
"ShipperNumber": "X0373R"
}
}
}
Below is the error I receive:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/***/Library/Preferences/PyCharmCE2019.1/scratches/UPS_API.py", line 15, in <module>
DelDate = data['TrackResponse']['Shipment']['Package'][0]['Activity'][0]['Date']
KeyError: 0

You're trying to index "Package" at index 0, but it's an object not an array. So you should be accessing ['Package']['Activity']

just take away the [0] because there is no [1] or [2]

What's wrong with my paypal invoice?

I have a little problem with making paypal invoices using paypal sdk in my django project. when I trying to execute this code
invoice_id = ''
invoice = Invoice({
"merchant_info": {
"email": '', # You must change this to your sandbox email account
"first_name": str(merchant.first_name),
"last_name": str(merchant.last_name),
"business_name": str(merchant_full_name),
"phone": {
"country_code": "001",
"national_number": str(merchant.phone)
},
"address": {
"line1": str(merchant_address.address),
"city": str(merchant_address.city),
"state": str(merchant_address.state),
"postal_code": str(merchant_address.zip_code),
"country_code": "US"
}
},
"billing_info": [{"email": buyer.paypal_address}],
"items": [
{
"name": "Slab",
"quantity": 1,
"unit_price": {
"currency": "USD",
"value": float(slab.price)
}
}
],
"note": "Invoice for slab",
"payment_term": {
"term_type": "NET_45"
},
"shipping_info": {
"first_name": buyer.first_name,
"last_name": buyer.last_name,
"business_name": str(buyer_full_name),
"phone": {
"country_code": "001",
"national_number": str(buyer.phone)
},
"address": {
"line1": str(buyer_address.address),
"city": str(buyer_address.city),
"state": str(buyer_address.state),
"postal_code": str(buyer_address.zip_code),
"country_code": "US"
}
},
"shipping_cost": {
"amount": {
"currency": "USD",
"value": 0
}
}
})
if invoice.create():
print(json.dumps(invoice.to_dict(), sort_keys=False, indent=4))
invoice_id = invoice['id']
return invoice_id
else:
print(invoice.error)
My server return me those errors
INFO:paypalrestsdk.api:Request[POST]:
https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token
INFO:paypalrestsdk.api:Response[200]: OK, Duration: 1.156739s.
INFO:paypalrestsdk.api:PayPal-Request-Id:
660f7807-961f-4460-bafd-18412b489a91
INFO:paypalrestsdk.api:Request[POST]:
https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/invoicing/invoices
INFO:paypalrestsdk.api:Response[401]: Unauthorized, Duration:
1.213655s. INFO:paypalrestsdk.api:Request[POST]: https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/v1/oauth2/token
INFO:paypalrestsdk.api:Response[200]: OK, Duration: 1.53491s.
As I understand it's a problem with paypal token, right?

You need to authenticate your request:
import requests, base64
# you can only encode byte objects
credentials = b"userid:password"
b64Val = base64.b64encode(credentials)
r=requests.post(api_URL,
headers={"Authorization": "Basic %s" % b64Val},
data=payload)

How to parse JSON in a Django View

I post some JSON to a view. I want to now parse the data and add it to my database.
I need to get the properties name and theme and iterate over the array pages. My JSON is as follows:
{
"name": "xaAX",
"logo": "",
"theme": "b",
"fullSiteLink": "http://www.hello.com",
"pages": [
{
"id": "1364484811734",
"name": "Page Name",
"type": "basic",
"components": {
"img": "",
"text": ""
}
},
{
"name": "Twitter",
"type": "twitter",
"components": {
"twitter": {
"twitter-username": "zzzz"
}
}
}
]
}
Here is what I have so far:
def smartpage_create_ajax(request):
if request.POST:
# get stuff and loop over each page?
return HttpResponse('done')

python provides json to encode/decode json
import json
json_dict = json.loads(request.POST['your_json_data'])
json_dict['pages']
[
{
"id": "1364484811734",
"name": "Page Name",
"type": "basic",
"components": {
"img": "",
"text": ""
}
},
{
"name": "Twitter",
"type": "twitter",
"components": {
"twitter": {
"twitter-username": "zzzz"
}
}
},
}
]

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This question already has answers here:
How to get notification when youtube channel uploads video in python
(2 answers)
Closed 7 months ago.
How can I get the id of latest uploaded video in a specific youtube Channel using Python?

You can request JSON and parse it. The following code gives you the first (most recent) result and stores it in first.
import urllib, json
author = 'Google'
inp = urllib.urlopen(r'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?max-results=1&alt=json&orderby=published&author=' + author)
resp = json.load(inp)
inp.close()
first = resp['feed']['entry'][0]
# Title of the video
print first['title']
# URL
print first['link'][0]['href']
I just looked through the JSON object in an interactive Python shell. You can build your own query or use the one I posted. Remember to change the author. This is a lower level approach, and #Frederik mentioned something a bit higher level.
The first object looks like this.
{
"author": [
{
"name": {
"$t": "Google"
},
"uri": {
"$t": "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/google"
}
}
],
"category": [
{
"scheme": "http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind",
"term": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video"
},
{
"label": "Science & Technology",
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat",
"term": "Tech"
},
{
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat",
"term": "Google Currents"
},
{
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat",
"term": "Google"
},
{
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat",
"term": "Currents"
},
{
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat",
"term": "Magazine App"
},
{
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat",
"term": "Reader App"
},
{
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat",
"term": "Android"
},
{
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat",
"term": "ios"
},
{
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat",
"term": "Android phone"
},
{
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat",
"term": "Android tablet"
},
{
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat",
"term": "iphone"
},
{
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/keywords.cat",
"term": "ipad"
}
],
"content": {
"$t": "Google Currents is a new mobile app that lets you enjoy free online magazines and other content optimized for your Android or Apple phones and tablets. Learn more at www.google.com",
"type": "text"
},
"gd$comments": {
"gd$feedLink": {
"countHint": 463,
"href": "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/5LOcUkm8m9w/comments"
}
},
"gd$rating": {
"average": 4.7557077,
"max": 5,
"min": 1,
"numRaters": 1752,
"rel": "http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall"
},
"id": {
"$t": "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/5LOcUkm8m9w"
},
"link": [
{
"href": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LOcUkm8m9w&feature=youtube_gdata",
"rel": "alternate",
"type": "text/html"
},
{
"href": "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/5LOcUkm8m9w/responses",
"rel": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.responses",
"type": "application/atom+xml"
},
{
"href": "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/5LOcUkm8m9w/related",
"rel": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.related",
"type": "application/atom+xml"
},
{
"href": "http://m.youtube.com/details?v=5LOcUkm8m9w",
"rel": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#mobile",
"type": "text/html"
},
{
"href": "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/5LOcUkm8m9w",
"rel": "self",
"type": "application/atom+xml"
}
],
"media$group": {
"media$category": [
{
"$t": "Tech",
"label": "Science & Technology",
"scheme": "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat"
}
],
"media$content": [
{
"duration": 94,
"expression": "full",
"isDefault": "true",
"medium": "video",
"type": "application/x-shockwave-flash",
"url": "http://www.youtube.com/v/5LOcUkm8m9w?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata",
"yt$format": 5
},
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