How to access data from a post response in JSON format

Question

I am trying to access a dictionary that has been returned after making a post to an API, but I am having difficulty formatting the data with JSON.

It seems to be returning the data as a dictionary but I receive the error 'list indices must be integers or slices, not str' which makes me believe that it is just returning a list that looks like a dictionary. I have tried using json.loads() and trying to access the data through lists but I can't seem to get it. The data I am trying to has multiple sub dictionaries/lists.

resp = post(url = endpoint_url, data = data, headers = headers)
data_for_process = resp.json()
print(data_for_process['pages']['keyValuePairs']['key'])

I expected the print statement to return the value for that specific key but I get the error instead.

Any help much appreciated.

Answer 1

you can use the json library of python

import json
import pprint

resp = post(url = endpoint_url, data = data, headers = headers)
resp_json = json.loads(resp.content)
pprint.pprint(resp_json) # to display the dict prettier