Python JSON Google Translator extraction problem

Question

I am trying to extract the JSON object in python using Simplejson. But I am getting the following error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Translator.py", line 42, in <module>
    main()
  File "Translator.py", line 38, in main
    parse_json(trans_text)
  File "Translator.py", line 27, in parse_json
    result = json['translations']['translatedText']
TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str

This is my JSON object looks like,

{'translations': [{'translatedText': 'fleur'}, {'translatedText': 'voiture'}]}

and this is my python piece of code for it.

def parse_json(trans_text):   
    json = simplejson.loads(str(trans_text).replace("'", '"'))    
    result = json['translations']['translatedText']
    print result

any idea on it?

Answer 1

json['translations'] is a list by your definition, so its indices must be integers

to get a list of translations:

translations = [x['translatedText'] for x in json['translations']]

another way:

translations  = map(lambda x: x['translatedText'], json['translations'])