Accessing the value of a key in a nested JSON converted to a dictionary in python

Question

I wish to access the value of 'elevation' ie 1608.637939453125 and store it into the variable 'g' . Below is the code

    import requests, json
r = requests.get(api link)

r= json.loads(r.text)

g=r['results']['elevation']

the above code returns this error

TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str

Here's the dictionary data

  {

   "results" : [
      {
         "elevation" : 1608.637939453125,
         "location" : {
            "lat" : 39.7391536,
            "lng" : -104.9847034
         },
         "resolution" : 4.771975994110107
      }
   ],
   "status" : "OK"
}

Answer 1

In this case, results is a list of dictionaries, not another dictionary. So you have to access the value of elevation like this:

g = x['results'][0]['elevation']

If results had more entries in the list, which is common, you can loop through them like this:

for result in x['results']:
  print(result)