Question

Thanks for helping out. I am working in python.

I’m requesting a json page, and loading it.

fooList = json.load(urllib.urlopen(
    "https://path.to.json.com/request?"))

It looks something like this:

{
   "data": [
      {
         "foo": "2323582"
      },
      {
         "foo": "32689023"
      },
      {
         "foo": "125815512"
      },
      {
         "foo": "1252015"
      },
      {
         "foo": "12518505"
      },
      {
         "foo": "109251907590"
      },
      {
         "foo": "2158019258"
      },
      {
         "foo": "2198059018"
      }
   ]
}

I have a defined object

obj = 1252015

I then want to iterate through that list, and present a boolean answer as to whether or not obj exists in fooList

findObj = 'This is where I need help'

Intended result:

print findObj
True

Answer 1

>>> print any(x['foo']=='1252015' for x in yourJson['data'])
True

any accepts any generator g=<generator> which returns boolean values, and is equivalent to g[0] or g[1] or g[2] or ... or g[N]. Of course if you didn’t just want to search yourJson['data'], that would be a different story, and you’d want to define a recursive function.