Question

I have parsed json data like below:

{
    "results": {
        "authors": [
            [
                {
                    "person": "Person1 Name",
                    "key": "director"
                }
            ],
            [
                {
                    "person": "Person2 Name",
                    "key": "author"
                },
                {
                    "person": "Person3 Name",
                    "key": "author"
                }               
            ]
        ]
    }
}

I.e. there can be several directors and several authors. I should get it as string like:

directors = "Person1 Name"
authors = "Person2 Name, Person3 Name"

Looks like I should go thru each value and check its key. But how can I do it with simplejson?

Answer 1

The following code works for me:

authors = []
directors = []
for persons in movie_json.get('results').get('authors'):
    for person in person:
        if person.get('person'):
            if person.get('key')=='author':
                authors.append(person.get('person'))
            elif person.get('key')=='director':
                directors.append(person.get('person'))
authors = None if authors == [] else ', '.join(authors)
directors = None if directors == [] else ', '.join(directors)