Using JSON keys as attributes in nested JSON

Question

I\'m working with nested JSON-like data structures in python 2.7 that I exchange with some foreign perl code. I just want to \'work with\' these nested structures of lists and

Answer 1

I think you're making this more complex than it needs to be. If I understand you correctly, all you should need to do is this:

import json

class Struct(dict):
    def __getattr__(self, name):
        return self[name]

    def __setattr__(self, name, value):
        self[name] = value

    def __delattr__(self, name):
        del self[name]

j = '{"y": [2, 3, {"a": 55, "b": 66}], "x": 4}'

aa = json.loads(j, object_hook=Struct)

for i in aa.y:
    print(i)

When you load JSON, the object_hook parameter lets you specify a callable object to process objects that it loads. I've just used it to turn the dict into an object that allows attribute access to its keys. Docs