Parsing Python dictionary with multiple objects

[Rustom Mody]

On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:51:11 PM UTC+5:30, Anurag Patibandla wrote:
> Here is my sample dict if that helps:
> 
> 
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> json = {"1": {"Status": "Submitted", "Startdate": ["01/01/2011"], "Enddate": ["02/02/2012"], "Job_ID": 1, "m_Quantile": "80", "m_Controller": "Python", "m_Method": "Distributed", "Allocation_3": ["50"], "Allocation_2": ["30"], "Allocation_1": ["20"], "Note": "", "m_Iterations": "1000", "submit": ["Submit"], "VaR": "", "Asset_2": ["YHOO"], "Asset_3": ["CAT"], "Asset_1": ["AAPL"]}, "3": {"Status": "Submitted", "Startdate": ["01/01/2011"], "Enddate": ["02/02/2012"], "Job_ID": 3, "m_Quantile": "90", "m_Controller": "Python", "m_Method": "Distributed", "Allocation_3": ["50"], "Allocation_2": ["30"], "Allocation_1": ["20"], "Note": "", "m_Iterations": "1000", "submit": ["Submit"], "VaR": "", "Asset_2": ["YHOO"], "Asset_3": ["CAT"], "Asset_1": ["AAPL"]}, "2": {"Status": "Submitted", "Startdate": ["01/01/2011"], "Enddate": ["02/02/2012"], "Job_ID": 2, "m_Quantile": "80", "m_Controller": "Python", "m_Method": "GARCH", "Allocation_3": ["50"], "Allocation_2": ["30"], "Allocation_1": ["20"], "Note": "", "m_Iterations": "1000", "submit": ["Submit"], "VaR": "", "Asset_2": ["YHOO"], "Asset_3": ["CAT"], "Asset_1": ["AAPL"]}, "4": {"Status": "Submitted", "Startdate": ["01/01/2011"], "Enddate": ["02/02/2012"], "Job_ID": 4, "m_Quantile": "90", "m_Controller": "Python", "m_Method": "GARCH", "Allocation_3": ["50"], "Allocation_2": ["30"], "Allocation_1": ["20"], "Note": "", "m_Iterations": "1000", "submit": ["Submit"], "VaR": "", "Asset_2": ["YHOO"], "Asset_3": ["CAT"], "Asset_1": ["AAPL"]}}

Right
So your dict (which is dicts !) we have
>>> json.keys()
['1', '3', '2', '4']

And so

>>> json[0]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
KeyError: 0

>>> json['0']
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
KeyError: '0'

>>> json['1']
{'Status': 'Submitted', 'Startdate': ['01/01/2011'], 'Enddate': ['02/02/2012'], 'Job_ID': 1, 'm_Quantile': '80', 'Allocation_3': ['50'], 'm_Method': 'Distributed', 'm_Controller': 'Python', 'Allocation_2': ['30'], 'Allocation_1': ['20'], 'Asset_2': ['YHOO'], 'Note': '', 'VaR': '', 'submit': ['Submit'], 'm_Iterations': '1000', 'Asset_3': ['CAT'], 'Asset_1': ['AAPL']}

IOW 0 is not a key 
Neither is '0' (the string containing the char 0)
But the string '1' is a valid key