Extracting a value from a combination of list of dictionaries

Question

The eutils package form NCBI returns the below object for a specific request. From this I want to extract the value 245540. How can I do that?

[{u'LinkSetDb'       : [{u'DbTo'     : 'sra',
                         u'Link'     : [{u'Id': '245540'}], 
                         u'LinkName' : 'biosample_sra'}],
  u'DbFrom'          : 'biosample', 
  u'IdList'          : ['1178400'], 
  u'LinkSetDbHistory': [],
  u'ERROR'           : []}]

As best as I can understand it, you're asking how to [access values inside nested dictionaries](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11700798/python-accessing-values-nested-within-dictionaries) which is a duplicate question. — Zooby, Dec 01 '17 at 11:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 01 '17 at 11:39

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if the variable name is var then var[0]['LinkSetDb'][0]['Link'][0]['Id']

answered Dec 01 '17 at 11:39

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