Convert list of nested dictionary into dictionary in Python - json

Question

I have a list of nested dictionary as below. There is list inside the dictionary as well. I don't want to change the inner list but to turn the entire list into dictionary. The list is as below:
[{"id" : "A", "data" : [{"key_1" : 012},{"key_2" : 123}, {"key_3" : 234}]}]
I only want to change the list itself to dictionary without changing the inner list as below:
{{"id" : "A", "data" : [{"key_1" : 012},{"key_2" : 123}, {"key_3" : 234}]}}
Appreciate your help in this.

Answer 1

Use a dictionary comprehension and zip the list of dictionaries up with whatever list of keys you want. Here is an example using a subset of ascii lowercase letters:
{ pair[0]: pair[1] for pair in list(zip([*string.ascii_lowercase[0:len(input)]], input))}
>>> foo = [ { 'Age': 32,
'Emp_id': 'A',
'Gender': 'M',
'Result': [ {'Incentive': 3000, 'Month': 'Aug'},
{'Incentive': 3500, 'Month': 'Sep'},
{'Incentive': 2000, 'Month': 'Oct'}]},
{ 'Age': 35,
'Emp_id': 'B',
'Gender': 'M',
'Result': [{'Incentive': 1500, 'Month': 'Aug'}]},
{ 'Age': 31,
'Emp_id': 'C',
'Gender': 'F',
'Result': [ {'Incentive': 5000, 'Month': 'Aug'},
{'Incentive': 2400, 'Month': 'Sep'}]}]
>>> { pair[0]: pair[1] for pair in list(zip([*string.ascii_lowercase[0:len(input)]], input))}
>>> { 'a': { 'Age': 32,
'Emp_id': 'A',
'Gender': 'M',
'Result': [ {'Incentive': 3000, 'Month': 'Aug'},
{'Incentive': 3500, 'Month': 'Sep'},
{'Incentive': 2000, 'Month': 'Oct'}]},
'b': { 'Age': 35,
'Emp_id': 'B',
'Gender': 'M',
'Result': [{'Incentive': 1500, 'Month': 'Aug'}]},
'c': { 'Age': 31,
'Emp_id': 'C',
'Gender': 'F',
'Result': [ {'Incentive': 5000, 'Month': 'Aug'},
{'Incentive': 2400, 'Month': 'Sep'}]}}
note: you can pretty print code as follows:
import pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
pp.pprint(data)