json - KeyError: 0 in Python -

i'm trying values of first object's direction , station returned in json, i'm getting following error

keyerror: 0

here's code:

print(json.dumps(savedrequest, indent=4)) savedstation = savedrequest[0]['station'] saveddirection = savedrequest[0]['direction'] 

and it's returning in print:

{      "-bas": {          "email_address": "dd3@gmail.com",           "direction": "southbound",           "station": "place-har"      },       "-bus": {          "email_address": "dd4@gmail.com",           "direction": "southbound",           "station": "place-su"      }  } 

i don't know -bas or -bus going when gets returned, need select first object in array.

your json decoded "object" (called dict in python), it's not array. such, has no particular "order". think "first" element may not stored way. there's no guarantee same object first each time.

what try, however, convert these dicts ordereddicts using object_pairs_hook parameter of json.loads (and json.load). ordereddict dict, remembers order elements inserted it.

import json collections import ordereddict  savedrequest = json.loads(data, object_pairs_hook=ordereddict)  # can "first" value `ordereddict` remembers order #firstkey = next(iter(savedrequest)) first = next(iter(savedrequest.values()))  savedstation = first['station'] saveddirection = first['direction'] 

_{(this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/6921760 , https://stackoverflow.com/a/21067850)}