将带有字典的列表转换成字典

Question

I have looked on stack-overflow for an answer to this question (and beyond!). However most of them raised errors that, to fix, I would have to change the entire json. This probably is not the best way, but, what I did is get a json that is REALLY long. I then parsed the first time it and got this:
[{'food': 'eat'}, {'food': 'eat out'}, {'food': 'go to dinner'}, {'food': 'go to lunch'}, {'food': 'go to breakfast'}, {'food': 'go out'}, {'food': 'eat out'}] .
The only problem is that when I parse it the second time, it converts to a list. I have tried multiple ways of fixing this, but have found none that work. Here is an example of my code:

# location is location of json, called JoeLearn.json

with open(location) as f:
    data = json.load(f)
for checks in range(len(['food'])): # I will replace ['food'] with a variable with more data in it. 
    data['food']
    # Code to convert to list

After I do data['food'] it looks like this (same as before):
[{'food': 'eat'}, {'food': 'eat out'}, {'food': 'go to dinner'}, {'food': 'go to lunch'}, {'food': 'go to breakfast'}, {'food': 'go out'}, {'food': 'eat out'}] .
How can I turn this into a dictionary so I can preform .keys() on it? If you have questions, please leave a comment. If you have an answer, please add it to the answers, as so many people leave answers in the comments.

Thanks in advance,
- User 9297446

Answer 1

Maybe this helps:

with open(location) as f:
    data = json.load(f)
food_list = [x['food'] for x in data] #find all value that with 'food' as key