How to completely traverse a complex dictionary of unknown depth?

Question

Importing from JSON can get very complex and nested structures. For example:

{u\'body\': [{u\'declarations\': [{u\'id\': {u\'name\': u\'i\',
            


        

Answer 1

Instead of writing your own parser, depending on the task, you could extend encoders and decoders from the standard library json module.

I recommend this especially if you need to encode objects belonging to custom classes into the json. If you have to do some operation which could be done also on a string representation of the json, consider also iterating JSONEncoder().iterencode

For both the reference is http://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html#encoders-and-decoders