Swapping the first two keys of dictionary
I have the following dictionary, I want to swap ‘path’ and ‘outputs’, so that path appears first
{'outputs': {'path': 'abc.jpg', 'size': {'width': 1920, 'height': 1080, 'depth': 3}, 'object': [{'name': 'vehicle', 'pose': 'Unspecified', 'truncated': 0, 'difficult': 0, 'bndbox': {'xmin': 1532, 'ymin': 631, 'xmax': 1657, 'ymax': 687}}, {'name': 'vehicle', 'pose': 'Unspecified', 'truncated': 0, 'difficult': 0, 'bndbox': {'xmin': 795, 'ymin': 685, 'xmax': 880, 'ymax': 723}}, {'name': 'vehicle', 'pose': 'Unspecified', 'truncated': 0, 'difficult': 0, 'bndbox': {'xmin': 1473, 'ymin': 660, 'xmax': 1529, 'ymax': 690}}]}} like this
{'path': 'abc.jpg','outputs': { 'size': {'width': 1920, 'height': 1080, 'depth': 3}, 'object': [{'name': 'vehicle', 'pose': 'Unspecified', 'truncated': 0, 'difficult': 0, 'bndbox': {'xmin': 1532, 'ymin': 631, 'xmax': 1657, 'ymax': 687}}, {'name': 'vehicle', 'pose': 'Unspecified', 'truncated': 0, 'difficult': 0, 'bndbox': {'xmin': 795, 'ymin': 685, 'xmax': 880, 'ymax': 723}}, {'name': 'vehicle', 'pose': 'Unspecified', 'truncated': 0, 'difficult': 0, 'bndbox': {'xmin': 1473, 'ymin': 660, 'xmax': 1529, 'ymax': 690}}]}} This dictionary is obtained by loading a json string. Is there some way of swapping the first two keys of this dictionary?
Use pop to remove the path from withing outputs and create a new toplevel key path to store the removed value.
dict = json.loads(...) dict["path"] = dict["outputs"].pop("path") Note that it would place path to the same level as output, but it doesn’t have to appear first, as keys of a dictionary are unordered.
