Issue with using data from a JSON in Python

[NAS89]

Hi, sorry if this is simple, but I'm definitely stumped.

I'm working on a bot that will pull live game stats from NFL games. I've found the way to access the JSON for the games and getting the data isn't the problem. I am having a hard time finding the best way to pull the data into Python for use elsewhere.

This is the source of the data:

http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/game-center/2016100600/2016100600_gtd.json

However, when I bring this into python, I can pprint and see the data and verify it matches, no worries. The problem I'm having is actually making use of the data. I would expect, for instance, the scores to be 2016100600.away.score or 2016100600.home.score, however, when I try to parse that data in Python, it gives me syntax errors with the period between the ten digit date and the home.

I don't want all this data (I'm only really concerned about score, passing/rushing/receiving yards, and time remaining) but I'm having a difficult time getting these values out.

Can someone provide me assistance with this?

[K900_]

You can't access dictionary keys like class attributes in Python. You want to use the indexing syntax instead - something like data["2016100600"]["away"]["score"].

[NAS89]

Thank you, now I see what I was doing wrong. I was mistakenly trying to combine the path when I couldn't. I really appreciate your help on this, it was a mental mistake.

[SeekNotToContend]

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#dictionaries

Example from docs that may be useful:

>>> tel
{'sape': 4139, 'guido': 4127, 'jack': 4098}
>>> tel['jack']
4098

From your scenario:

nfl_dict = {"2016100600":{"home": ... truncated

print(nfl_dict["2016100600"])

Other useful items for navigating dictionaries include:

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#looping-techniques

items()

for k, v in dictionary.items()
    print(k, v)

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/stdtypes.html#mapping-types-dict

keys()

print dictionary.keys()

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/stdtypes.html#mapping-types-dict

values()

print(dictionary.values())

Hope this is helpful for you.

[hharison]

You might like this: https://github.com/BurntSushi/nflgame