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how to print after the keyword from python?

i have following string in python
b'{"personId":"65a83de6-b512-4410-81d2-ada57f18112a","persistedFaceIds":["792b31df-403f-4378-911b-8c06c06be8fa"],"name":"waqas"}'
I want to print the all alphabet next to keyword "name" such that my output should be
waqas
Note the waqas can be changed to any number so i want print any name next to keyword name using string operation or regex?

First you need to decode the string since it is binary b. Then use literal eval to make the dictionary, then you can access by key
>>> s = b'{"personId":"65a83de6-b512-4410-81d2-ada57f18112a","persistedFaceIds":["792b31df-403f-4378-911b-8c06c06be8fa"],"name":"waqas"}'
>>> import ast
>>> ast.literal_eval(s.decode())['name']
'waqas'

It is likely you should be reading your data into your program in a different manner than you are doing now.
If I assume your data is inside a JSON file, try something like the following, using the built-in json module:
import json
with open(filename) as fp:
data = json.load(fp)
print(data['name'])

if you want a more algorithmic way to extract the value of name:
s = b'{"personId":"65a83de6-b512-4410-81d2-ada57f18112a",\
"persistedFaceIds":["792b31df-403f-4378-911b-8c06c06be8fa"],\
"name":"waqas"}'
s = s.decode("utf-8")
key = '"name":"'
start = s.find(key) + len(key)
stop = s.find('"', start + 1)
extracted_string = s[start : stop]
print(extracted_string)
output
waqas

You can convert the string into a dictionary with json.loads()
import json
mystring = b'{"personId":"65a83de6-b512-4410-81d2-ada57f18112a","persistedFaceIds":["792b31df-403f-4378-911b-8c06c06be8fa"],"name":"waqas"}'
mydict = json.loads(mystring)
print(mydict["name"])
# output 'waqas'

First you need to convert the string into a proper JSON Format by removing b from the string using substring in python suppose you have a variable x :
import json
x = x[1:];
dict = json.loads(x) //convert JSON string into dictionary
print(dict["name"])

Read unicode encoded JSON and access it using Python

I have a very huge unicode JSON data of the following format
{u'completed': True, u'entries': [{u'absolute_time':
u'2017-05-17T10:41:52Z', u'command': None, u'level':
u'NORMAL',......
It has Json objects within JSON objects. Unable to read it and parse it due to the encoding. Tried the following code.
Could someone please tell how to parse it and convert it to a normal JSON object.
with open(r"inp.json", 'r') as jsonData:
jsonToPython = json.load(jsonData) #gives error here itself
#jsonData = ast.literal_eval(jsonData)
print(json.dumps(jsonToPython))
#print (jsonToPython)

You can try to load the (stringified) python object using ast:
>>> #obj = open(r"inp.json", 'r').read()
>>> obj = "{u'completed': True, u'entries': [{u'absolute_time': u'2017-05-17T10:41:52Z'}]}"
>>> ast.literal_eval(obj)
{'completed': True, 'entries': [{'absolute_time': '2017-05-17T10:41:52Z'}]}
>>>

how to correctly save "\u**" to json in python

I have a dictionary:
data = {"data": "\u512b"}
while I dump that to json:
import json
print json.dumps(data)
I got:{"a":"\\u512b"}
What should I do to get exactly {"a":"\u512b"}?
NOTE: I try to add u before the string so it becomes u'\u512b' and the extra \ won't show up again, please also tell me why

You can do some hacking.
import json
data = {"data": "\u512b"}
s = json.dumps(data)
print(s.replace(r'\u', 'u'))
print(type(s.replace(r'\u', 'u')))
Output:
{"data": "\u512b"}
<type 'str'>

My guess is that you are just confused by the output of the Python interpreter, displaying you the json.dumps generated string with its own \ escape character prepended to the \ character in the string. The JSON string as a value contains exactly one \, as you want (IIUC):
>>> data = {"data": "\u512b"}
>>> data
{'data': '\u512b'}
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps(data)
'{"data": "\\u512b"}'
>>> print(json.dumps(data))
{"data": "\u512b"}
>>> json.dump(data, open('data.json', 'w'))
>>> ^Z
C:\opt\Console2>type data.json
{"data": "\u512b"}
This is entirely independent of JSON in fact, as the following example shows:
>>> s = "s\\u"
>>> s
's\\u'
>>> print(s, len(s)) # length of s is 3, not 4
s\u 3
HTH!

How to convert an string to json in Python

I'm trying to convert an string into json output from local Data or Those datas from BeautifulSoup output as Json.for example:
#! /usr/bin/python
data = ('Hello')
print data
and i need to convert this Hello as json output.
How can do that?
is this possible?

Check out the json module in Python https://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html
import json
json.dumps({"hello": 0}, sort_keys=True)

You can use the json module to encode Python objects as JSON, e.g.
>>> import json
>>> data = ('Hello')
>>> json.dumps(data)
'"Hello"'
>>> data = ('Hello', 'There')
>>> json.dumps(data)
'["Hello", "There"]'
>>> data = {'message': 'Hello'}
>>> json.dumps(data)
'{"message": "Hello"}'

Update JSON objects with Python script for AWS

I have a bunch of JSON objects that I need to update in order to use the CLI for AWS.
Here is an example of the JSON format. I will need to update lbtest, lbtest-cookie-pol and 80 with different values.
{
"LoadBalancerName": "lbtest",
"PolicyName": "lbtest-cookie-pol",
"CookieExpirationPeriod":80
}
In some cases, there will be multiple values here for each Load Balancer Name.
The output will need to look like this:
{
"LoadBalancerName": "lbtest",
"PolicyName": "lbtest-cookie-pol",
"CookieExpirationPeriod":80
}
{
"LoadBalancerName": "lbtest",
"PolicyName": "lbtest-cookie-pol2",
"CookieExpirationPeriod":8080.
}
Suppose I had a CSV file with all these entries, what kind of python script can I write to loop through these and print out my JSON output? The part where I am having issues is the printing of the nested JSON object. print doesn't seem to like multiple lines or the curly braces that I have. Newbie here so I would appreciate any kind of solution.

you can use json.dumps method and it's options mentioned in documentations:
for example with using indent option you get this on python 2.7 :
>>> dictionary = {
"LoadBalancerName": "lbtest",
"PolicyName": "lbtest-cookie-pol",
"CookieExpirationPeriod":80 } #a dictionary object made from csv
>>> print dictionary
{'PolicyName': 'lbtest-cookie-pol', 'CookieExpirationPeriod': 80, 'LoadBalancerName': 'lbtest'}
>>> import json
>>> jobj = json.dumps(dictionary,indent=4, separators=(',', ': '))
>>> print jobj
{
"PolicyName": "lbtest-cookie-pol",
"CookieExpirationPeriod": 80,
"LoadBalancerName": "lbtest"
}
>>> f = open(r'jtest.txt','w') #save our json object to file
>>> json.dump(dictionary,fp,indent =4 , seperators = (',',': '))
>>> f.close()
>>> f = open(r'jtest.txt!','r') #read our object from file
>>> test = json.load(f)
>>> test
{u'PolicyName': u'lbtest-cookie-pol', u'CookieExpirationPeriod': 80, u'LoadBalancerName': u'lbtest'}
>>> dict(test)
{u'PolicyName': u'lbtest-cookie-pol', u'CookieExpirationPeriod': 80, u'LoadBalancerName': u'lbtest'}
here is how our file looks like:
jtest.txt file