Reading from Python dict if key might not be present

Question

I am very new to Python and parsing data.

I can pull an external JSON feed into a Python dictionary and iterate over the dictionary.

for r in results:
         


        

Answer 1

the initial question in this thread is why I wrote the Dictor library, it handles JSON fallback and None values gracefully without needing try/except or If blocks.

Also gives you additional options like ignore upper/lower case,

see,

https://github.com/perfecto25/dictor