KeyError when trying to search through list of dictionaries in JSON-CodePudding

Im trying to search for a dict key in a JSON file which looks like this:

[{"1.0": {"name": "Name", "message": "Message"}}, 
 {"69.0": {"name": "F.Z", "message": "Dggl"}}
]

I am using :

def main(id:float):
   for i in output_json:
     if(i["id"]==id):
         return(i["message"],i["name"])

to search through the JSON file but it gives me a key error over 'id'. I want the output to be the contents of the dictionary whose key I have inputted.

CodePudding user response：

There's no id key in your dictionaries. The numbers are the keys of the first level of dictionaries, so you need to test if it exists as a key, which you can do with in.

You need to convert id to a string, since the keys of your dictionaries are strings, not floats.

def main(id: float):
    key = str(id)
    for d in output_json:
        if key in d:
            return d[key]['message'], d[key]['name']