python取json中嵌套数据,在Python中，如何简明地获取json数据中的嵌套值？

I have data loaded from JSON and am trying to extract arbitrary nested values using a list as input, where the list corresponds to the names of successive children. I want a function get_value(data,lookup) that returns the value from data by treating each entry in lookup as a nested child.

In the example below, when lookup=['alldata','TimeSeries','rates'], the return value should be [1.3241,1.3233].

json_data = {'alldata':{'name':'CAD/USD','TimeSeries':{'dates':['2018-01-01','2018-01-02'],'rates':[1.3241,1.3233]}}}

def get_value(data,lookup):

res = data

for item in lookup:

res = res[item]

return res

lookup = ['alldata','TimeSeries','rates']

get_value(json_data,lookup)

My example works, but there are two problems:

It's inefficient - In my for loop, I copy the whole TimeSeries object to res, only to then replace it with the rates list. As @Andrej Kesely explained, res is a reference at each iteration, so data isn't being copied.

It's not concise - I was hoping to be able to find a concise (eg one or two line) way of extracting the data using something like list comprehension syntax

解决方案

If you want one-liner and you are using Python 3.8, you can use assignment expression ("walrus operator"):

json_data = {'alldata':{'name':'CAD/USD','TimeSeries':{'dates':['2018-01-01','2018-01-02'],'rates':[1.3241,1.3233]}}}

def get_value(data,lookup):

return [data:=data[item] for item in lookup][-1]

lookup = ['alldata','TimeSeries','rates']

print( get_value(json_data,lookup) )

Prints:

[1.3241, 1.3233]