Question

I’m using google place API to return a list of locations. I would like to find the first name from the result set. I’m getting a list of values, but when I try to get just the first name, it gives me the first character instead.

name2 = simplejson.dumps([s['name'] for s in result['results']], indent=0)[0]

Obviously, there has to be a better way to get what I want, but I haven’t found it. Seems like I’m missing something pretty basic. Following is the whole function:

import simplejson, urllib


PLACE_SEARCH = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json'

def placelatlng(name,city, state,  sensor,**geo_args):
    geo_args.update({
        'name': name,
        'city': city,
        'state': state,       
        'sensor': sensor  
    })  
    concat=name+'+'+city+'+'+state 
    query =  {"query": concat }

    key="MyKey"
    url = PLACE_SEARCH + '?' + urllib.unquote(urllib.urlencode(query))+ '&'  + "sensor="+sensor +'&' + "key="+key
    result = simplejson.load(urllib.urlopen(url))
    name2 = simplejson.dumps([s['name'] for s in result['results']], indent=0)

Thanks.

Answer 1

dumps() returns a string. [0] gets the first character in it.

To get the first result’s name:

print result['results'][0]['name']