How to extract specific values from a list in a dict in python?

Question

I have downloaded a json file and imported it into python as a dict. Now the dict shows that it only has a len of 2 'id' and 'stats'. I would like to extract the values of 'stats' as a separate dict, so I can manipulate the data further. The manipulation which I want to do further is that I only want the first part of 'stats'. Thus I would only have the stats for the player_fullname = 'Lenny Hampel'.

My Questions: 1. How to get the values of 'stats' into a separate dict? 2. How to only get the values of 'player_fullname': 'Lenny Hampel'?

Answer 1

You can get your list of dicts with

dct_lst = lennymatch1["stats"]

And then the player with the name "Lenny Hampel":

player = [item for item in dct_lst if item["player_fullname"] == "Lenny Hampel"]

All in one go

player = [item 
          for item in lennymatch1["stats"] 
          if item["player_fullname"] == "Lenny Hampel"]

Answer 2

stats is a list of dicts not a dict. to get the list as a separate variable simply:

stats = data['stats']

To extract all the names use a list comprehension:

names = [d['player_fullname' ] for d in data['stats']]

And to get a specific dict in that list use:

lennymatch = next(d for d in data if d['player_fullname'] == "Lenny Hampel")

This will raise an error if the name isn't in the list/dicts if you want it to return an empty dict then use the default parameter of next or try/except it depending on your needs