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Asked: 2026-06-03T17:13:57+00:00

I’m trying to print all the keys, values from a json response without knowing

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I’m trying to print all the “keys, values” from a json response without knowing the keys names (without using the syntax json[‘example’], for example). I’m doing this with a recursively function that uses iteritems(), but I’m having some problems:

This is the Json response that I’m trying to read:

{"servers": [{"id": "a059eccb-d929-43b2-8db3-b32b6201d60f", "links": [{"href": "http://192.168.100.142:8774/v2/2ad1fc162c254e59bea043560b7f73cb/servers/a059eccb-d929-43b2-8db3-b32b6201d60f", "rel": "self"}, {"href": "http://192.168.100.142:8774/2ad1fc162c254e59bea043560b7f73cb/servers/a059eccb-d929-43b2-8db3-b32b6201d60f", "rel": "bookmark"}], "name": "birk"}]}

This is the funcion that I’m using:

def format_main_response(self, json_string):
    print "json:       " + json_string
    content = json.loads(str(json_string))
    for key, value in content.iteritems():
        print key
        if type(value) == type(['']):
            strg = str(json.dumps(value))
            strg = strg.strip('[]')
            self.format_main_response(strg)
        else:
            print value

I’m using the strip function to take out all the ‘[ ]’ from my json string. If I didn’t do that I got an error when trying to load it using ‘json.loads()’ function.

 Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "main.py", line 135, in <module>
        formatter.format_main_response(nova_API.list_servers())
      File "/home/python/jsonformatter.py", line 51, in format_main_response
        self.format_main_response(strg, mod)
      File "/home/python/jsonformatter.py", line 51, in format_main_response
        self.format_main_response(strg, mod)
      File "/home/python/jsonformatter.py", line 31, in format_main_response
        for key, value in content.iteritems():
    AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'iteritems'

My problem is that in some point the json that should be printed looks like this, without the ‘[ ]’:

{"href": "http://192.168.100.142:8774/v2/2ad1fc162c254e59bea043560b7f73cb/servers/a059eccb-d929-43b2-8db3-b32b6201d60f", "rel": "self"}, {"href": "http://192.168.100.142:8774/2ad1fc162c254e59bea043560b7f73cb/servers/a059eccb-d929-43b2-8db3-b32b6201d60f", "rel": "bookmark"}

When the function tries to find the ‘key,value’ from this json, I got this error: 

 Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 135, in <module>
    formatter.format_main_response(nova_API.list_servers())
  File "/home/python/jsonformatter.py", line 34, in format_main_response
    self.format_main_response(strg)
  File "/home/python/jsonformatter.py", line 34, in format_main_response
    self.format_main_response(strg)
  File "/home/python/jsonformatter.py", line 28, in format_main_response
    content = json.loads(str(json_string))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 326, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 369, in decode
    raise ValueError(errmsg("Extra data", s, end, len(s)))
ValueError: Extra data: line 1 column 135 - line 1 column 273 (char 135 - 273)

What should I do in this case? Or any other way to get the same result?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use that:

    def format_main_response(json_string):
    print "json:       " + json_string
    content = json.loads(str(json_string))
    for key, value in content.iteritems():
        print key
        if type(value) == type(['']):
            for sub_value in value:
                strg = str(json.dumps(sub_value))
                format_main_response(strg)
        else:
            print value

    That’s the result:

    ~$ python test_pdb.py 
json:       {"servers": [{"id": "a059eccb-d929-43b2-8db3-b32b6201d60f", "links": [{"href": "http://192.168.100.142:8774/v2/2ad1fc162c254e59bea043560b7f73cb/servers/a059eccb-d929-43b2-8db3-b32b6201d60f", "rel": "self"}, {"href": "http://192.168.100.142:8774/2ad1fc162c254e59bea043560b7f73cb/servers/a059eccb-d929-43b2-8db3-b32b6201d60f", "rel": "bookmark"}], "name": "birk"}]}
servers
json:       {"id": "a059eccb-d929-43b2-8db3-b32b6201d60f", "links": [{"href": "http://192.168.100.142:8774/v2/2ad1fc162c254e59bea043560b7f73cb/servers/a059eccb-d929-43b2-8db3-b32b6201d60f", "rel": "self"}, {"href": "http://192.168.100.142:8774/2ad1fc162c254e59bea043560b7f73cb/servers/a059eccb-d929-43b2-8db3-b32b6201d60f", "rel": "bookmark"}], "name": "birk"}
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href
http://192.168.100.142:8774/v2/2ad1fc162c254e59bea043560b7f73cb/servers/a059eccb-d929-43b2-8db3-b32b6201d60f
rel
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href
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