JSON list of dictionaries to python

Question

My json file is a list of dictionaries

I am able to successfully open it but I am not sure how to access the "the_dict" dictionary so I can retrieve and print just "test" and "pie" in my python program.

with open('my_settings.json') as json_data:
    config = json.load(json_data)

# my_words = config["the_dict"] is what I tried but this does not work

Answer 1

config_file is a list, not a dictionary, as you have observed. You will need to access the first dictionary in the list, and then call the key "the_dict" then "words" to get the list of words:

my_words = config_file[0]["the_dict"]["words"]