Question

First I defined : u = [ ], then I have

 u = {'flavor': {'version': u'X', 'name': 'MacOS'}, 
      'dist': {'version': u'AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8C148', 'name': 'iPad'}}

How can I select the ‘iPad’ field in u and assign this value to a string variable terminal?

Answer 1

(I don’t know what u = [] is meant to do. It’s not needed.)

Assuming I know what you mean by “the ‘iPad’ field”:

>>> u = {'flavor': {'version': u'X', 'name': 'MacOS'}, 'dist': {'version': u'AppleCoreMedia/1.0.0.8C148', 'name': 'iPad'}}
>>> terminal = u['dist']['name']
>>> terminal
'iPad'