Split json data python

January 3, 2022

I try to split json data using data[1:], but don’t work.
more concretely what I’m trying to do is ignore the first object array of a .json, but keep the rest in a variable

f = open("people_data.json", "r")
data = json.load(f)

people = data[1:]

# irrelevant code

JSON

{
    "variable_id": [
        {
            "name": "anybody",
            "age": "25",
            "job": "insurance company"
        }
    ],
    "Skills": [
        {
            "area": "programmer",
            "level": "junior",
            "comments": "..."
        }
    ],
    "other": [
        {
            "something": "..."
        }
    ]

My goal is to have a variable with skills and others, but without personal data.
This is just an example, because the problem is that I don’t know what will be the name of the following arrays because they will be variables instead of skills or other names

>Solution :

Your data is a dict, not a list, so slicing isn’t available. (There’s also the philosophical issue of whether you can assume that variable_id is the first item: Python dicts are ordered by insertion, but JSON objects are not.)

The simplest thing to do would be to simply remove the key you don’t want.

with open("people_data.json") as f:
    data = json.load(f)

people = dict(data)
people.pop("variable_id")

# Or just data.pop("variable_id") if you don't care about preserving the original dict.