JSON result parsing

[John Gordon]

In <fd02ca3a-47af-4a0b-b309-56bc732ea071 at googlegroups.com> TUA <kai.peters at gmail.com> writes:

> I want to retrieve the value for a key 'ID' but only if I have a single result and, obviously, if ID is present.

> How can I do this with pythonic elegance?

> Thanks for all suggestions!

    if len(results) == 1 and 'ID' in results:
        return results['ID']

    else:
        return 'something else'

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