Question

I got two functions that return a list of dictionary and i’m trying to get json to encode it, it works when i try doing it with my first function, but now i’m appending second function with a syntax error of ": expected". I will eventually be appending total of 7 functions that each output a list of dict. Is there a better way of accomplishing this?

import dmidecode
import simplejson as json

def get_bios_specs():
    BIOSdict = {}
    BIOSlist = []
    for v in dmidecode.bios().values():
        if type(v) == dict and v['dmi_type'] == 0:
            BIOSdict["Name"] = str((v['data']['Vendor']))
            BIOSdict["Description"] = str((v['data']['Vendor']))
            BIOSdict["BuildNumber"] = str((v['data']['Version']))
            BIOSdict["SoftwareElementID"] = str((v['data']['BIOS Revision']))
            BIOSdict["primaryBIOS"] = "True"

            BIOSlist.append(BIOSdict)
    return BIOSlist

def get_board_specs():
    MOBOdict = {}
    MOBOlist = []
    for v in dmidecode.baseboard().values():
        if type(v) == dict and v['dmi_type'] == 2:
           MOBOdict["Manufacturer"] =  str(v['data']['Manufacturer'])
           MOBOdict["Model"] = str(v['data']['Product Name'])

           MOBOlist.append(MOBOdict)
    return MOBOlist


def get_json_dumps():
    jsonOBJ = json

    #Syntax error is here, i can't use comma to continue adding more, nor + to append.
    return  jsonOBJ.dumps({'HardwareSpec':{'BIOS': get_bios_specs()},{'Motherboard': get_board_specs()}})

Answer 1

Use multiple items within your nested dictionary.

jsonOBJ.dumps({
    'HardwareSpec': {
        'BIOS': get_bios_specs(),
        'Motherboard': get_board_specs()
     }
})

And if you want multiple BIOS items or Motherboard items, just use a list.

...
     'HardwareSpec': {
        'BIOS': [
            get_bios_specs(),
            get_uefi_specs()
        ]
        ...
     }