How to get individual dict from a nested dict? - json

Question

Having following json file
{
"front_page": {
"institue": {
"inst_name": "University Name",
"size": 12,
"type": "bold"
},
"doc_type": {
"name": "(Scope Document)",
"size": 12,
"type": "bold"
},
"project_title": {
"name": "Project Title",
"size": 12,
"type": "bold"
},
"Version": {
"Version": "Version 1.0",
"size": 12,
"type": "bold"
},
"Degree": {
"name": "Becholar of Science in Computer Science(2016-2020)",
"size": 12,
"type": "bold"
}
}
}
I need to get all nested dictionaries as separate dict object.
So far I only managed to get all key, value pairs
def parse_json_obj(json_obj):
for k, v in json_obj.items():
if isinstance(v, dict):
print('found at ', k)
parse_json_obj(v)
else:
print(v)
what I'm trying to do is get each dict and append its content to a pdf page. I've already figured out how to handle each dict for pdf but don't know how to extract dictionaries.
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Assuming if what you want is all the dicts which dont have sub dicts in them you could do the following.
jdict = {
"front_page": {
"institue": {
"inst_name": "University Name",
"size": 12,
"type": "bold"
},
"doc_type": {
"name": "(Scope Document)",
"size": 12,
"type": "bold"
},
"project_title": {
"name": "Project Title",
"size": 12,
"type": "bold"
},
"Version": {
"Version": "Version 1.0",
"size": 12,
"type": "bold"
},
"Degree": {
"name": "Becholar of Science in Computer Science(2016-2020)",
"size": 12,
"type": "bold"
}
}
}
def parse_json_obj(json_obj):
list_of_dicts = []
for item in json_obj.values():
if isinstance(item, dict):
has_sub_dict = [subdict for subdict in item.values() if isinstance(subdict, dict)]
if has_sub_dict:
list_of_dicts += parse_json_obj(item)
else:
list_of_dicts.append(item)
return list_of_dicts
list_of_dicts = parse_json_obj(jdict)
print(*list_of_dicts, sep="\n")
OUTPUT
{'inst_name': 'University Name', 'size': 12, 'type': 'bold'}
{'name': '(Scope Document)', 'size': 12, 'type': 'bold'}
{'name': 'Project Title', 'size': 12, 'type': 'bold'}
{'Version': 'Version 1.0', 'size': 12, 'type': 'bold'}
{'name': 'Becholar of Science in Computer Science(2016-2020)', 'size': 12, 'type': 'bold'}
If this isnt what you were trying to achieve then i would suggest to update the question to make it more clear.