python JSON only get keys in first level

Question

I have a very long and complicated json object but I only want to get the items/keys in the first level!

Example:

{     "1": "a",      "3": "b",      "8": {         "12": "c",          "25": "d"     } } 

I want to get 1,3,8 as result!

I found this code:

for key, value in data.iteritems():     print key, value 

But it prints all keys (also 12 and 25)

Answer 1

Just do a simple .keys()

>>> dct = { ...     "1": "a",  ...     "3": "b",  ...     "8": { ...         "12": "c",  ...         "25": "d" ...     } ... } >>>  >>> dct.keys() ['1', '8', '3'] >>> for key in dct.keys(): print key ... 1 8 3 >>> 

If you need a sorted list:

keylist = dct.keys() keylist.sort()