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Python

Andy McDonald
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Andy McDonald
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Posted by Andy McDonald
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Andy McDonald
Python Development Techdegree Graduate 13,801 Points

Key error???

I have the following code:

import requests

url = "https://covid-api.mmediagroup.fr/v1/cases?country=All"

payload={}
headers = {}

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data=payload)
data = response.json()


countries_list = []
countries = {}
for country in data:
    base = data[country]['All']
    new = {country : {'stats' : {'Confirmed' : base['confirmed'], 'Recovered' : base['recovered'], 'Deaths' : base['deaths']}}}
    new[country]['stats']['Life expectancy'] = base['life_expectancy']
    countries.update(new)


print(data)

Many keys will not work for some reason. One of them being life_expectancy and population and I dont understand why... Can someone pleeeaaaaseee help?

Here is an example of what the raw data looks like:

{'Afghanistan': {'All': {'confirmed': 154361, 'recovered': 0, 'deaths': 7183, 'country': 'Afghanistan', 'population': 35530081, 'sq_km_area': 652090, 'life_expectancy': '45.9', 'elevation_in_meters': None, 'continent': 'Asia', 'abbreviation': 'AF', 'location': 'Southern and Central Asia', 'iso': 4, 'capital_city': 'Kabul', 'lat': '33.93911', 'long': '67.709953', 'updated': '2021/09/17 04:21:46+00'}}

1 Answer

jb30
jb30
44,805 Points

There are some places in the data that don't include keys for life expectancy or population, such as "Summer Olympics 2020". Instead of base['life_expectancy'], have you tried something like base.get('life_expectancy', 'N/A')? This will return the value for base[life_expectancy] if it's a valid key, and will return 'N/A' if base does not have the key life_expectancy.