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How to filter out data from a print out message

I have this one problem, where I print out a message response from a website(JSON response), and the response I get is this.
Here is my model with fake data:
{"token": "MTAxOTAwNjM4NjEyMzg0OTkwMQ.8hkyLV.n0ir2UA4qFE5pXen9YnPtFzgn4xP8tHmVmmkrl", "user_settings": {"locale": "en-US", "theme": "dark"}, "user_id": "101900638614857883"}
And, if I only want the value of "token" data which are this (MTAxOTAwNjM4NjEyMzg0OTkwMQ.8hkyLV.n0ir2UA4qFE5pXen9YnPtFzgn4xP8tHmVmmkrl) and I want to store it into a txt file, is there any good way to do it?
Thank you, guys!
I tried print(r.text('token')) but it did not work, since it only works on printing the category of the data's (like : Category : {"token" : 'daefafa', "user-id" : 'er121231231', more})

In python, JSON is treated as a dictionary.
To filter it use dictionary comprehension
tokenData = {key: val for key,val in data_json.items() if key == 'token'}
Full Code Snippet :
from urllib.request import urlopen
import json
url = "enter-your-url"
response = urlopen(url)
data_json = json.loads(response.read())
print(type(data_json)) # <class 'dict'>
#use dict comprehension
jsonToken = {key: val for key,val in data_json.items() if key == 'result'}
strToken = json.dumps(jsonToken)
# Only string json can be written to files
with open('data.txt','w') as file:
file.write(strToken)
file.close()

You need to parse the JSON into a dictionary using json.loads(). Like this:
import json
# ...
# request-getting code
# ...
data = json.loads(r.text)
print(data['token'])

Python return value without inverted commas

I have csv file:
shack_imei.csv:
shack, imei
F10, "5555"
code:
reader = csv.reader(open("shack_imei.csv", "rb"))
my_dict = dict(reader)
shack = raw_input('Enter Shack:')
print shack
def get_imei_from_entered_shack(shack):
for key, value in my_dict.iteritems():
if key == shack:
return value
list = str(get_imei_from_entered_shack(shack))
print list
which gives me "5555"
But I need this value in a list structure like this:
["5555"]
I've tried a lot of different methods, and they all end up with extra ' or""
EDIT 1:
new simpler code:
reader = csv.reader(open("shack_imei.csv", "rb"))
my_dict = dict(reader)
shack = raw_input('Enter Shack:')
imei = my_dict[shack]
print imei
"5555"
list(imei) gives me ['"5555"'], I need it to be ["5555"]

You can change your "return" sentence:
shack = raw_input('Enter Shack:')
print shack
def get_imei_from_entered_shack(shack):
for key, value in my_dict.iteritems():
if key == shack:
return [str(value)]
list = get_imei_from_entered_shack(shack)
print list

As far as I understand, you want to create a list containing the returned string, which you do with [ ]
list = [str(get_imei_from_entered_shack(shack))]

There are a few problems with this code, which are too long to tackle in comments
my_dict
my_dict = dict(reader) works only well if this csv is a collection of keys and values. If there are duplicate keys, this might give some problems
get_imei_from_entered_shack
Why this special method, instead of just asking my_dict the correct value. Even if you don't want it to trow an Exception when you ask for a shack that doesn't exists, you can use the dict.get(<key>, <default>) method
my_dict(shack, None)
does the same as your 4-line method
list
don't name variables the same as builtins
list2
if you want a list, you can do [<value>] or list(<value>) (unless you replaced list with your own variable assignment)

reader = csv.reader(open("shack_imei.csv", "rb"))
my_dict = dict(reader)
shack = raw_input('Enter Shack:')
imei = my_dict[shack]
imei = imei.replace('"',"")
IMEI_LIST =[]
IMEI_LIST.append(imei)
print IMEI_LIST
['5555']

Parsing JSON to CSV with Python - AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'keys'

This JSON to CSV code example is working great:
employee_data = '{"info":[{"employee_name": "James", "email": "james#gmail.com", "job_profile": "Sr. Developer"},{"employee_name": "Smith", "email": "Smith#gmail.com", "job_profile": "Project Lead"}]}'
#This can be parsed and converted to CSV using python as shown below:
import json
import csv
employee_parsed = json.loads(employee_data)
emp_data = employee_parsed['info']
# open a file for writing
employ_data = open('Employee.csv', 'w')
# create the csv writer object
csvwriter = csv.writer(employ_data)
count = 0
for emp in emp_data:
if count == 0:
header = emp.keys()
csvwriter.writerow([header])
count += 1
csvwriter.writerow([emp.values()])
employ_data.close()
My trouble comes in when I'm trying to use the following JSON data below...
I get an AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'keys'. Please keep your response simple as this is my Python "Hello World". :-)
employee_data = '{"info": {"arch": "x86_64","platform": "linux"},"packages": {"_license-1.1-py27_0.tar.bz2": {"build": "py27_0","build_number": 0,"date": "2013-03-01","depends": ["python 2.7*"],"license": "proprietary - Continuum Analytics, Inc.","license_family": "Proprietary","md5": "5b13c8cd498ce15b76371ed85278e3a4","name": "_license","requires": [],"size": 194947,"version": "1.1"}}}'
Thank you for any direction on this.

The problem is that your code expects the JSON keys to be arrays. This loop here:
for emp in emp_data:
Expects each top level JSON key to be iterable (loopable). On your original JSON, the key info maps to a list:
[{"employee_name": "James", "email (...)
However, the ìnfo` key on the second JSON example does not map to a list but instead to a dictionary:
"info": {"arch": "x86_64","platform": "linux"}
Changing the info key to a list fixes it:
"info": [{"arch": "x86_64","platform": "linux"}]
In further depth, your emp_data variable looks like this:
{'platform': 'linux', 'arch': 'x86_64'}
And so when you iterate it (for emp in emp_data), emp will be "arch" or "platform", which you cannot get .keys() from.

Selecting values from a JSON file in Python

I am getting JIRA data using the following python code,
how do I store the response for more than one key (my example shows only one KEY but in general I get lot of data) and print only the values corresponding to total,key, customfield_12830, summary
import requests
import json
import logging
import datetime
import base64
import urllib
serverURL = 'https://jira-stability-tools.company.com/jira'
user = 'username'
password = 'password'
query = 'project = PROJECTNAME AND "Build Info" ~ BUILDNAME AND assignee=ASSIGNEENAME'
jql = '/rest/api/2/search?jql=%s' % urllib.quote(query)
response = requests.get(serverURL + jql,verify=False,auth=(user, password))
print response.json()
response.json() OUTPUT:-
http://pastebin.com/h8R4QMgB

From the the link you pasted to pastebin and from the json that I saw, its a you issues as list containing key, fields(which holds custom fields), self, id, expand.
You can simply iterate through this response and extract values for keys you want. You can go like.
data = response.json()
issues = data.get('issues', list())
x = list()
for issue in issues:
temp = {
'key': issue['key'],
'customfield': issue['fields']['customfield_12830'],
'total': issue['fields']['progress']['total']
}
x.append(temp)
print(x)
x is list of dictionaries containing the data for fields you mentioned. Let me know if I have been unclear somewhere or what I have given is not what you are looking for.
PS: It is always advisable to use dict.get('keyname', None) to get values as you can always put a default value if key is not found. For this solution I didn't do it as I just wanted to provide approach.
Update: In the comments you(OP) mentioned that it gives attributerror.Try this code
data = response.json()
issues = data.get('issues', list())
x = list()
for issue in issues:
temp = dict()
key = issue.get('key', None)
if key:
temp['key'] = key
fields = issue.get('fields', None)
if fields:
customfield = fields.get('customfield_12830', None)
temp['customfield'] = customfield
progress = fields.get('progress', None)
if progress:
total = progress.get('total', None)
temp['total'] = total
x.append(temp)
print(x)

How do I access a dictionary value for use with the urllib module in python?

Example - I have the following dictionary...
URLDict = {'OTX2':'http://lsdb.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/variants.php?select_db=OTX2&action=view_all',
'RAB3GAP':'http://lsdb.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/variants.php?select_db=RAB3GAP1&action=view_all',
'SOX2':'http://lsdb.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/variants.php?select_db=SOX2&action=view_all',
'STRA6':'http://lsdb.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/variants.php?select_db=STRA6&action=view_all',
'MLYCD':'http://lsdb.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/variants.php?select_db=MLYCD&action=view_all'}
I would like to use urllib to call each url in a for loop, how can this be done?
I have successfully done this with with the urls in a list format like this...
OTX2 = 'http://lsdb.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/variants.php?select_db=OTX2&action=view_all'
RAB3GAP = 'http://lsdb.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/variants.php?select_db=RAB3GAP1&action=view_all'
SOX2 = 'http://lsdb.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/variants.php?select_db=SOX2&action=view_all'
STRA6 = 'http://lsdb.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/variants.php?select_db=STRA6&action=view_all'
MLYCD = 'http://lsdb.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/variants.php?select_db=MLYCD&action=view_all'
URLList = [OTX2,RAB3GAP,SOX2,STRA6,PAX6,MLYCD]
for URL in URLList:
sourcepage = urllib.urlopen(URL)
sourcetext = sourcepage.read()
but I want to also be able to print the key later when returning data. Using a list format the key would be a variable and thus not able to access it for printing, I would lonly be able to print the value.
Thanks for any help.
Tom

Have you tried (as a simple example):
for key, value in URLDict.iteritems():
print key, value

Doesn't look like a dictionary is even necessary.
dbs = ['OTX2', 'RAB3GAP', 'SOX2', 'STRA6', 'PAX6', 'MLYCD']
urlbase = 'http://lsdb.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/variants.php?select_db=%s&action=view_all'
for db in dbs:
sourcepage = urllib.urlopen(urlbase % db)
sourcetext = sourcepage.read()

I would go about it like this:
for url_key in URLDict:
URL = URLDict[url_key]
sourcepage = urllib.urlopen(URL)
sourcetext = sourcepage.read()
The url is obviously URLDict[url_key] and you can retain the key value within the name url_key. For exemple:
print url_key
On the first iteration will printOTX2.