I am trying to amend the value of a node in my JSON, however, I keep getting "SyntaxError: invalid Syntax"
Every question I've looked at gives the same answer: 1, 2, 3. As do online article (example). Use (in psuedo terms) {jsonvariable}.["{Node Name}"] = {new value} however, this doesn't work, no matter what I try, the Python file refuses to run.
This makes me assume it's my implementation, but perhaps it because these answers are based on Python 2 and I'm (currently) using 3.7.5.
The JSON value I'm trying to update is a second level value, which might make a difference, however, Googling/Searching appears to never bring me to a example with that, and I know that clock.[id+".Status"] = "Finished doesn't work.
The JSON snippet looks like this:
{
"0c2ad7d1-0fc9-47d5-99a2-2e7c8cff2a3d": {
"Status": "Finished",
"Status Time": "2020-05-17 16:48:12.584676",
"Channel ID": 704635364039589941,
"Active Player": 1,
"Message ID": "",
"Player1": {
"Name": "Larnu",
"ID": 357506009675333632,
"Remaining": "01:00"
},
"Player2": {
"Name": "Dolphin Bot",
"ID": 357506009675333632,
"Remaining": "01:00"
}
},
"a370d674-6f1a-41be-86d2-9f8c73ab8ab0": {
"Status": "Not Started",
"Status Time": "2020-05-17 16:48:12.584676",
"Channel ID": 704635364039589941,
"Active Player": "1",
"Message ID": "711605974779166730",
"Player1": {
"Name": "Larnu",
"ID": 357506009675333632,
"Remaining": "01:00:00"
},
"Player2": {
"Name": "Dolphin Alpha",
"ID": 704635572580253818,
"Remaining": "01:00:00"
}
}
}
And the value I'm trying to change is Status in the a370d674-6f1a-41be-86d2-9f8c73ab8ab0 tree. The relevant part that's erroring is:
with open("clocks.json","r+") as clocks_file:
clocks = json.load(clocks_file)
clock = clocks[clockid]
clock.['Status'] = "Finished"
clockid would have been set previously (if the Python file ran) with the value a370d674-6f1a-41be-86d2-9f8c73ab8ab0.
If I understand correctly, I think you'll want to get rid of the . before the [. In other words:
clock['Status'] = 'Finished'
or, without assignment:
clocks[clockid]['Status'] = 'Finished'