🔒 Can I make key-value pairs from an api json object into an dictionary?

[autumn glen]

Hi, I made a function out of the json object. The problem is that I get all of the key value pairs at once if I put "return gameday_data". I can't return the key value pairs separately, at least not without making several functions. Is it possible to turn these into a dictionary so I can return all of them and "pick them out" seperatly when I need them? The hashtaged parts is what I tried to do that didn't work.

I'm in a beginner course for python so this is all pretty new.

Here's the code in text:
def get_gameday():
gameday_url = f'{base_url}/api/{season}/{gameday}'
gameday_data = requests.get(gameday_url).json().get('games',{})
for game in gameday_data:
#score = game.get('score')
#home = score.get('home')
#home_team = home.get('team').split(' ')[0]
#home_goal = home.get('goals')
#away = score.get('away')
#away_team = away.get('team').split(' ')[0]
#away_goal = away.get('goals')
#return score, home_team, home_goal, away, away_team, away_goal

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[verbal sand]

Those are already a dictionary. When you do .json() on the returned info, it converts the json string into python objects - including dictionaries, all those .get on stuff are dict.get method

So you in fact want to convert one dictionary into another dictionary.

+Please remember that return ends the function, so you probably want to save all games into a list.

So I'd do it this way:

result = []
for game in gameday_data:
    # for each game, make a new dictionary only with info you want
    score = game["score"] # direct indexing as we know it has to exist(?) 
    home = score["home"] 
    game_info = {
        "home_team": home["team"].split()[0],
        "home_goal": home.get("goals"),
        # add more keys and values here
    }
    results.append(game_info)

return results # has to be outside of the loop

Note that I did direct dict indexing when key seems to must exist - dict.get returns None when the key isn't found, so .get or .split would error in those cases, so I assumed they must always exist.

The results I created is a list of dicts

[autumn glen]

I'm not sure if I can make a dictionary for every games there's over 20 of them. This is the api: http://football-frenzy.s3-website.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/
Is there any other way to do it? This is how I would like to use them later on:

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