Reading from Python dict if key might not be present

Question

I am very new to Python and parsing data.

I can pull an external JSON feed into a Python dictionary and iterate over the dictionary.

for r in results:
         


        

Answer 1

You can use the built in function hasattr

key='key_name'
# or loop your keys 

if hasattr(e, key):
  print(e[key])
else:
  print('No key for %s' % key)