API Help

[justin walters]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2017-06-14, Erik <python at lucidity.plus.com> wrote:
> > On 14/06/17 22:54, Ray Cote wrote:
> >> Definitely JSON:
> >>>>>
> >> json.loads(“""[{"itemNumber":"75-5044","inventory":[{"
> warehouseCode":"UT-1-US","quantityAvailable":0.0000000000000},{"
> warehouseCode":"KY-1-US","quantityAvailable":0.0000000000000},{"
> warehouseCode":"TX-1-US","quantityAvailable":14.0000000000000},{"
> warehouseCode":"CA-1-US","quantityAvailable":4.0000000000000},{"
> warehouseCode":"AB-1-CA","quantityAvailable":1.0000000000000},{"
> warehouseCode":"WA-1-US","quantityAvailable":0.0000000000000},{"
> warehouseCode":"PO-1-CA","quantityAvailable":0.0000000000000}]}]""")
> [...]
> >
> > If that makes it definitely JSON, then this makes it definitely Python
> ;) :
> > >>>
> > [{"itemNumber":"75-5044","inventory":[{"warehouseCode":"
> UT-1-US","quantityAvailable":0.0000000000000},{"warehouseCode":"KY-1-US","
> quantityAvailable":0.0000000000000},{"warehouseCode":"TX-1-US","
> quantityAvailable":14.0000000000000},{"warehouseCode":"CA-1-US","
> quantityAvailable":4.0000000000000},{"warehouseCode":"AB-1-CA","
> quantityAvailable":1.0000000000000},{"warehouseCode":"WA-1-US","
> quantityAvailable":0.0000000000000},{"warehouseCode":"PO-1-CA","
> quantityAvailable":0.0000000000000}]}]
>
> Indeed.
>
> > So, I think we're agreed that it's definitely one or the other.
>
> It's both a floor wax _and_ a dessert topping!
>
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> Grant
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JSON and Python dictionaries have nearly the exact same syntax. That's why
working with
JSON in Python is such a joy! :)

You can paste any valid JSON into a Python REPL and it will be interpreted
as a Python
dictionary.

I can assure you with 99.9999~% confidence that the data you are receiving
from the API
is JSON data. You will find very few web APIs around nowadays that aren't
using JSON or
JSONB(binary representation of JSON).

All that said, you can use the built in ``json`` module to convert the raw
data into a Python
dictionary in the following manner(assuming you are using Python 3.2+).

```
import json

response_data = "..." # This is the received JSON data as a binary string.

data = json.loads(
    str(response_data, encoding="utf8")
)

data["itemNumber"]

>>> "75-5044"
```

Hope that helps.