Accessing Json data (I think I am nearly there) complete beginner

[Mark Lawrence]

On 23/05/2013 19:19, Andrew Edwards-Adams wrote:
> On Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:11:28 PM UTC+1, Andrew Berg wrote:
>> On 2013.05.23 11:58, Andrew Edwards-Adams wrote:
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>>> Hi thanks for the reply Andrew, my first bit of code was heading in the right direction I was managing to pull out the usernames from the JSON, using REGEX.
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>> It's also worth mentioning that regexes are almost always the wrong tool, especially for standardized formats like JSON. They can be very
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>> useful when nothing saner will get the job done, but are a nasty mess with no real benefit otherwise.
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>> CPython 3.3.2 | Windows NT 6.2.9200 / FreeBSD 9.1
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> Thanks Andrew, yes I believe this is what the guy who provided me with the code was thinking. I was about to embark on what was definitely going to be an inefficient long regex.
>

Funny old world, there doesn't appear to be working code but someone is 
already thinking about definite inefficiency.  What evidence do you have 
to support this claim?

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