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Unable to parse JSON from file using Python3

I'm trying to get the value of ["pooled_metrics"]["vmaf"]["harmonic_mean"] from a JSON file I want to parse using python. This is the current state of my code:
for crf in crf_ranges:
vmaf_output_crf_list_log = job['config']['output_dir'] + '/' + build_name(stream) + f'/vmaf_{crf}.json'
# read the vmaf_output_crf_list_log file and get value from ["pooled_metrics"]["vmaf"]["harmonic_mean"]
with open(vmaf_output_crf_list_log, 'r') as json_vmaf_file:
# load the json_string["pooled_metrics"] into a python dictionary
vm = json.loads(json_vmaf_file.read())
vmaf_values.append((crf, vm["pooled_metrics"]["vmaf"]["harmonic_mean"]))
This will give me back the following error:
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'loads'
I always get back the same AttributeError not matter if I use "load" or "loads".
I validated the contents of the JSON, which is valid using various online validators, but still, I am not able to load the JSON for further parsing operations.
I expect that I can load a file that contains valid JSON data. The content of the file looks like this:
{
"frames": [
{
"frameNum": 0,
"metrics": {
"integer_vif_scale2": 0.997330,
}
},
],
"pooled_metrics": {
"vmaf": {
"min": 89.617207,
"harmonic_mean": 99.868023
}
},
"aggregate_metrics": {
}
}
Can somebody provide me some advice onto this behavior, what does it seem so absolutely impossible to load this JSON file?

loads is a method for the json library as the docs say https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html#json.loads. In this case you are having a AttributeError this means that probably you have created another variable named "json" and when you call json.loads is calling that variable hence it won't have a loads method.

How to print attributes of a json file

I would appreciate some help: how could I print just the country from the info obtained via this API call? Thanks!
import requests
import json
url = "https://randomuser.me/api/"
data = requests.get(url).json()
print(data)

You should play a little more with the json in order to learn how to use it, a helpful way to understand them is to go layer by layer printing the keys dict.keys() to see where you should go next if you dont have a documentation
in this particular case it returns a dictionary with the following first layer structure:
{
"results": [ ... ]
"info": { ... }
}
where results contains a single dictionary inside, therefore we can take
data['results'][0] to wok with
there is 'location', and there is a 'country', you can access this in that order to print the country:
print(data['results'][0]['location']['country'])

Using Bad Json in Python

I am having a json in a file which i want to access in my Python Code. The Json file looks like :
{
"fc1" : {
region : "Delhi",
marketplace : "IN"
},
"fc2" : {
region : "Rajasthan",
marketplace : "IN"
}
}
The above json i want to use in my Python code. I want to access according to its keys("fc1", "fc2")
Since this is not like actual json, i am facing difficulty in accessing the values in json.
Is there any way in python language to access these type of json.
Thanks.

I agree with the comment that, if you generated that file, then you should put quotes around region and marketplace when generating it (or have the person who generated it do the same). However, if this absolutely isn't an option for whatever reason, the following approach might work:
import json
data_string = """
{
"fc1":{
region:"Delhi",
marketplace: "IN"
},
"fc2" : {
region:"Rajasthan",
marketplace: "IN"
}
}
"""
data = json.loads(data_string.replace('region', '"region"').replace('marketplace', '"marketplace"'))
data
>>>{'fc1': {'region': 'Delhi', 'marketplace': 'IN'},
'fc2': {'region': 'Rajasthan', 'marketplace': 'IN'}}
Note that you would have to do the same for any unquoted key.

There is module dirtyjson which reads this incorrect JSON.
import dirtyjson
data_string = """
{
"fc1":{
region:"Delhi",
marketplace: "IN"
},
"fc2" : {
region:"Rajasthan",
marketplace: "IN"
}
}
"""
data = dirtyjson.loads(data_string)
print(data)
print(data['fc1'])
print(data['fc2'])

Change the font of an entire document without affecting formatting using Google Docs API

I am trying to change the font of an entire Google Doc using the API. The purpose is to let users of our application export documents with their company’s font.
This is what I am currently doing:
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
doc_service = build("docs", "v1")
document = self.doc_service.documents().get(documentId="[Document ID]").execute()
requests = []
for element in document["body"]["content"]:
if "sectionBreak" in element:
continue # Trying to change the font of a section break causes an error
requests.append(
{
"updateTextStyle": {
"range": {
"startIndex": element["startIndex"],
"endIndex": element["endIndex"],
},
"textStyle": {
"weightedFontFamily": {
"fontFamily": "[Font name]"
},
},
"fields": "weightedFontFamily",
}
}
)
doc_service.documents().batchUpdate(
documentId=self.copy_id, body={"requests": requests}
).execute()
The code above changes the font, but it also removes any bold text formatting because it overrides the entire style of an element. Some options I have looked into:
DocumentStyle
Documents have a DocumentStyle property, but it does not contain any font information.
NamedStyles
Documents also have a NamedStyles property. It contains styles like NORMAL_TEXT and HEADING_1. I could loop through all these and change their textStyle.weightedFontFamily. This would be the ideal solution, because it would keep style information where it belongs. But I have not found a way to change NamedStyles using the API.
Deeper loop
I could continue with my current approach, looping through the elements list on each element, keeping everything but the font from textStyle (which contains things like bold: true). However, our current approach already takes too long to execute, and such an approach would be both slower and more brittle, so I would like to avoid this.

Answer:
Extract the textStyle out of the current element and only change/add the weightedFontFamily/fontFamily object.
Code Example:
for element in document["body"]["content"]:
if "sectionBreak" in element:
continue # Trying to change the font of a section break causes an error
textStyle = element["paragraph"]["elements"][0]["textStyle"]
textStyle["weightedFontFamily"]["fontFamily"] = "[Font name]"
requests.append(
{
"updateTextStyle": {
"range": {
"startIndex": element["startIndex"],
"endIndex": element["endIndex"],
},
"textStyle": textStyle,
"fields": "weightedFontFamily",
}
}
)
doc_service.documents().batchUpdate(
documentId=self.copy_id, body={"requests": requests}
).execute()

This seems to work for me, even with section breaks in between, and at the end of the document. You might want to explore more corner cases..
This basically tries to mimic the SelectAll option
document = service.documents().get(documentId=doc_id).execute()
endIndex = sorted(document["body"]["content"], key=lambda x: x["endIndex"], reverse=True,)[0]["endIndex"]
service.documents().batchUpdate(
documentId=doc_id,
body={
"requests": {
"updateTextStyle": {
"range": {
"endIndex": endIndex,
"startIndex": 1,
},
"fields": "fontSize",
"textStyle": {"fontSize": {"magnitude": 100, "unit": "pt"}},
}
}
},
).execute()
Same should work for other fields too.
However, if you are going to just share a docx file to all the clients, you could keep a local copy of the PDF / DOCX and then modify those. It is fairly easy to work around the styles in DOCX (it is a bunch of xml files)
Use this to explore and update DOCX files OOXML Tools Chrome Extension
Similarly PDFs are key-values pairs stored as records. Check this: ReportLab

JSON object array parsing in django

I am new to python and django.
For my application in my django view, I am accepting array (and sub arrays) of JSON objects as request, by using json.loads I am trying to parse and iterate thru JSON objects but facing issues while parsing.
my javascript object sent from client is
var JSONObject = {
"employees_companyA":
[
{ "firstName":"John" , "lastName":"Doe" },
{ "firstName":"Anna" , "lastName":"Smith" },
{ "firstName":"Peter" , "lastName":"Jones" }
],
"employees_companyB":
[
{ "firstName":"John" , "lastName":"Doe" },
{ "firstName":"Anna" , "lastName":"Smith" },
{ "firstName":"Peter" , "lastName":"Jones" }
]
};
What is the best way to parse above two objects and read firstName, lastName for same.
I tried using o["firstName"], o.firstName etc (below is my code snippet)
json_obj = json.loads(request.POST['json_test'])
for o in json_obj:
temp_arr.append(o["firstName"])
I am sure this would be pretty straightforward but I couldn't find exact help here.

The top-level element of your JSON structure is not a list, but a mapping. It's keys are of the form "employees_companyA", "employees_companyB", etc.
You need to thus address that structure using the python mapping interface instead:
for value in json_obj.itervalues():
temp_arr.append(value[0]["firstName"])
or as a one-liner:
temp_arr = [value[0]['firstName'] for value in json_obj.itervalues()]
Both use the .itervalues() method on json_obj to loop over all the values in the structure.