In Python, a nested dictionary is a dictionary inside a dictionary. It's a collection of dictionaries into one single dictionary. More reading here.
Sometimes you need to build nested dicts. This can be frustrating to get right. Here's an example.
...
if r.status_code == 200:
result = r.json()
c = 0
data = {'repos': {}}
for res in result:
data['repos'][c] = {}
data['repos'][c]['name'] = res['full_name']
data['repos'][c]['desc'] = res['description']
data['repos'][c]['language'] = res['language']
data['repos'][c]['forks'] = res['forks']
data['repos'][c]['watchers'] = res['watchers']
data['repos'][c]['stars'] = res['stargazers_count']
data['repos'][c]['dates'] = {}
data['repos'][c]['dates']['created_at'] = res['created_at']
data['repos'][c]['dates']['updated_at'] = res['updated_at']
data['repos'][c]['dates']['pushed_at'] = res['pushed_at']
c = c+1
json_object = json.dumps(data, sort_keys=False)
return(json_object)
...Output
{
"repos": {
[...]
"10": {
"name": "dunderrrrrr/Pi-hole-FastAPI",
"desc": "An FastAPI for Pi-hole",
"language": "Python",
"forks": 0,
"watchers": 4,
"stars": 4,
"dates": {
"created_at": "2019-11-20T13:29:19Z",
"updated_at": "2020-01-25T22:47:50Z",
"pushed_at": "2019-11-20T13:35:30Z"
}
},
"11": {
"name": "dunderrrrrr/vsphereapi",
"desc": "Connect to VMWare REST API and get VM data",
"language": "Python",
"forks": 1,
"watchers": 0,
"stars": 0,
"dates": {
"created_at": "2019-02-19T19:54:56Z",
"updated_at": "2019-02-23T11:49:38Z",
"pushed_at": "2019-10-21T15:47:54Z"
}
},
[...]
}