extract data from a json file in python

Question

I have been try to find the best way to search a particular value and extract the data. I am new and hope i have worded this correctly.

    {"family": {
    "name": "Mary",
    "age": "32",
    "sex": "female",
    "kids": [
      {
        "name": "jim",
        "age": "10",
        "sex": "male",
        "dob_year": "2007",
        "ssn": "123-23-1234"
      },
      {
        "name": "jill",
        "age": "6",
        "sex": "female",
        "dob_year": "2011",
        "ssn": "123-23-1235"
      }]}}

if i needed to search "ssn" containing "1234" and return the "name" "jim" what would be the best way to go about achieving this?

Solution 1

Actually question was about extracting from file

So here you are:

import json

with open('data.json') as json_file:
    data = json.load(json_file)
    for kid in data['family']['kids']:
        if '1234' in kid['ssn']:
            print(kid['name'])

Additional reading: https://stackabuse.com/reading-and-writing-json-to-a-file-in-python/

Solution 2

You can first iterate kids and apply condition

import json
js = '''your json text data'''
j = json.loads(js)

for items in j['family']['kids']:
    if '1234' in items['ssn']:
        print(items['name'])

Output

'jim'

Comments

[KAM_00]

This way worked perfect, how would I do it if i had multiple kids with "1234" and wanted the list of names with the sex?