Decoding nested JSON with multiple 'for' loops

Question

I\'m new to Python (last week), and have reached my limit. Spent three days on this, most of my time in stackoverflow, but I cannot work out how to go any further!

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Answer 1

It looks ugly, but you can refine this, but here is listing at arbitrary depth of mix of Dict and List:

import os, json,requests
print 'Starting'
url = 'https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3758695/json.txt'

# download the json string
json_string = requests.get(url)
print 'Downloaded json'

def dig_down(partial_json_list, depth):
    if type(partial_json_list) is list:
        for i in range(len(partial_json_list)):
            print 'index', i, ' at depth', depth,' has', len(partial_json_list[i]) , 'elements'
            if len(partial_json_list[i]) > 1:
                dig_down(partial_json_list[i],depth+1)
    else:
        for k in partial_json_list:
            print 'item at depth', depth, 'equals', k#, ' & has', len(partial_json_list[k]) , 'elements'
            if type(partial_json_list) is list or type(partial_json_list) is dict:
                try:
                    if len(partial_json_list[k]) > 1:
                        dig_down(partial_json_list[k],depth+1)
                except:
                    pass
            else:
                print partial_json_list[k]

# get the content
the_data = json_string.json()
print 'the_data has length ', len(the_data)
dig_down(the_data,0)