Convert JSON string to dict using Python

Question

I'm a little bit confused with JSON in Python. To me, it seems like a dictionary, and for that reason I'm trying to do that:

{     "glossary":     {         "title": "example glossary",         "GlossDiv":         {             "title": "S",             "GlossList":             {                 "GlossEntry":                 {                     "ID": "SGML",                     "SortAs": "SGML",                     "GlossTerm": "Standard Generalized Markup Language",                     "Acronym": "SGML",                     "Abbrev": "ISO 8879:1986",                     "GlossDef":                     {                         "para": "A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.",                         "GlossSeeAlso": ["GML", "XML"]                     },                     "GlossSee": "markup"                 }             }         }     } } 

But when I do print dict(json), it gives an error.

How can I transform this string into a structure and then call json["title"] to obtain "example glossary"?

Answer 1

json.loads()

import json  d = json.loads(j) print d['glossary']['title'] 

Answer 2

When I started using json, I was confused and unable to figure it out for some time, but finally I got what I wanted
Here is the simple solution

import json m = {'id': 2, 'name': 'hussain'} n = json.dumps(m) o = json.loads(n) print(o['id'], o['name'])