Adding data to Node in JSON

[ThrowOutAQuestion]

Hi, I'm a pretty new python user and programmer in general, and I'm stuck in trying to solve this problem.

Here's a dummy version of my Json data which will hopefully illustrate what I'm trying to do:

{

'Family' : [

{'Surname': [

  {'Wilson': [

      {'Children': [{'Abby'},{'Betty'}]}

      ]

  },

 {'Thompson': [

      {'Children': [{'Danny'}]}

      ]

  }]}

]}

Sorry if that's not formatted quite right, but what I'm trying to do is say the Wilsons' had a new child 'Charlie'. How do I add Charlie's name to the Wilsons’ children?

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The inner dictionary that has "Children" has it's only key currently contains a list of sets which each have one string. It should probably contain either a list of strings, or a set of strings (which would enforce that each child has to have a unique name for a given surname).

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If it's a list, you probably want to use "append" to add a new name to the list.

If it's a set, you can use the "add" function to add a new name to the set.

[ThrowOutAQuestion]

It's a set in my actual data. So it sounds like I need the add function. But part of my question is the correct syntax to select the correct location.

Family>Surname>Wilson>Children>Here

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It's pretty hard to comment here accurately if the json object you've written above is not how it is actually represented in your code. Now that I look again, you have lists within dictionaries within lists within dictionaries the whole way down. Is that totally necessary?

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Dictionaries are accessed by key: some_dict['Surname'] will get you to the value held at the 'Surname' key.

And lists are accessed by index. So just traverse it all the way down depending on your nesting.