How do you get only dictionary items from JSON in python?

Question

I'm on python 3.8. Here an example JSON file i'm working with:

{
  "dict1": {
      "text": "here",
      "more text": "here too"
      },
  "dict2": {
      "cool": "text",
      "filler": "element"
      }
}

I'm eventually gonna be working with multiple dicts and won't always know the names of them. When I do this:

import json

with open("jsonfile.json", "r") as file:
    data = json.load(file)
for element in data:
    if element is dict:
        print(element)

It prints nothing. No error messages, just nothing. Thank you in advance!

You need to debug this yourself. Start by printing ‘element’ every time. — quamrana, Mar 15 '21 at 19:07
`data` is a dictionary. Looping over a dictionary returns the keys, not the values. — Barmar, Mar 15 '21 at 19:07

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:10

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import json

with open("jsonfile.json", "r") as file:
    data = json.load(file)
for element in data.values():
    if isinstance(element, dict):
        print(element)

answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:10

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MarcoP · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-15T19:09:58.640

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if you want to iterate the values of a dictionary, use dict.values()

d = {
  "dict1": {
      "text": "here",
      "more text": "here too"
      },
  "dict2": {
      "cool": "text",
      "filler": "element"
      }
}

for element in d.values():
    if type(element) == dict:
        print(element)

{'text': 'here', 'more text': 'here too'}
{'cool': 'text', 'filler': 'element'}

edited Mar 15 '21 at 19:09

answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:08

MarcoP

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How do you get only dictionary items from JSON in python?

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