Extracting value from a nested dict

Question

I am trying to extract a value from a nested dict, which looks like this:

response = 
    {'TransitGatewayRouteTables': [{'TransitGatewayRouteTableId': 'tgw-rtb-0461b603f87a09881',
                                            'TransitGatewayId': 'tgw-0d79045d0f874bfd4',
                                            'State': 'available', 
                                            'DefaultAssociationRouteTable': False, 
                                            'DefaultPropagationRouteTable': True, 
                                            'CreationTime': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 18, 2, 32, 25,
        tzinfo=tzlocal()),
                                            'Tags': []}], 
             'ResponseMetadata': {'RequestId': '8d427b26-7735-4154-a7a3-ed45c83b5894',
                                  'HTTPStatusCode': 200, 
                                  'HTTPHeaders': {'x-amzn-requestid': '8d427b26-7735-4154-a7a3-ed45c83b5894',
                                                  'content-type': 'text/xml;charset=UTF-8', 
                                                  'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 
                                                  'vary': 'accept-encoding', 
                                                  'date': 'Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:54:47 GMT', 
                                                  'server': 'AmazonEC2'}, 
                                                  'RetryAttempts': 0}}

I am trying to extract the value "tgw-rtb-0461b603f87a09881" from this failing to do so. Have tried using

print (response['TransitGatewayRouteTables']['TransitGatewayRouteTableId'])

but that gives an error: "list indices must be integers or slices, not str: TypeError"

I am able to get one level deeper with the following:

rtid = response.values()
print(rtid)

This gets me to the following

dict_values([[{'TransitGatewayRouteTableId': 'tgw-rtb-0461b603f87a09881', 'TransitGatewayId': 'tgw-0d79045d0f874bfd4', 'State': 'available', 'DefaultAssociationRouteTable': False, 'DefaultPropagationRouteTable': True, 'CreationTime': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 18, 2, 32, 25, tzinfo=tzlocal()), 'Tags': []}], {'RequestId': '6a0ec6df-c41c-4e06-b98d-1afff74e5915', 'HTTPStatusCode': 200, 'HTTPHeaders': {'x-amzn-requestid': '6a0ec6df-c41c-4e06-b98d-1afff74e5915', 'content-type': 'text/xml;charset=UTF-8', 'transfer-encoding': 'chunked', 'vary': 'accept-encoding', 'date': 'Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:13:00 GMT', 'server': 'AmazonEC2'}, 'RetryAttempts': 0}])

Not quite sure if I am going in the right direction. Would be great if someone can help describe how to get the required value extracted.

Answer 1

In your case of nested dictionaries, you have to use the index [0] to access the value of outer dictionary which is a list and then the key to get the value from the inner dictionary

print (response['TransitGatewayRouteTables'][0]['TransitGatewayRouteTableId'])
# tgw-rtb-0461b603f87a09881