python - refrencing certain values in a list -

i have following json:

[     {         "name": "person 1",         "phones": {             "home": [                 "000-111-2222",                 "333-444-5555"             ],             "cell": "666-777-8888"         }     },     {         "phones": {             "home": "123-456-7890"         },         "name": "person 2"     } ] 

if load file using open, saves file type list. have seen using open with, json object load type dict json array load type list.

def get_json():     file_name = raw_input("enter name of json file: ")     open(file_name) json_file:         json_data = json.load(json_file)         return json_data 

i'm trying figure out how access parts of file, such after loading json if wanted print line:

"name": "person 1", 

saving json "list1" , calling print first element in list1 (print(list1[0]))) prints:

{u'name': u'person 1',  u'phones': {u'cell': u'666-777-8888',              u'home': [u'000-111-2222', u'333-444-5555']}} 

which expect seeing how thats first "value" in array, how grab "name": line specificity?

you can use ordereddict in case sure data has layout [{..},..] , don't know first pair in first object , matters.

import json collections import ordereddict  def get_json():     file_name = raw_input("enter name of json file: ")     open(file_name) json_file:         json_data = json.load(json_file, object_pairs_hook=ordereddict)     return json_data 

then can access first pair in first dict in following way:

>>> data = get_json() ... >>> next(iter(data[0].items())) # python 2/python 3 ('name', 'person 1') >>> data[0].items()[0] # python 2 ('name', 'person 1') >>> list(data[0].items())[0] # python 2/python 3 ('name', 'person 1') 

however, if care order should not store data json object , use arrays instead.

ordereddict , object_pairs_hook added in python 2.7.