Check if key exists and iterate the JSON array using Python

Question

I have a bunch of JSON data from Facebook posts like the one below:

{\"from\": {\"id\": \"8\", \"name\": \"Mary Pinter\"}, \"message\": \"How ARE you?\", \"c         


        

Answer 1

I wrote a tiny function for this purpose. Feel free to repurpose,

def is_json_key_present(json, key):
    try:
        buf = json[key]
    except KeyError:
        return False

    return True