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is that this has been standardized now
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as a python dictionary what indeed apple
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is returning is technically a json
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response javascript object notation but
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python the request library is converting
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it to a python dictionary which happens
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to use wonderfully coincidentally almost
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the same syntax it uses curly braces to
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represent the dictionary here and a
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closed curly brace to represent the end
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of it here for any lists therein it uses
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a square bracket here and a closed
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square bracket down here it uses quotes
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single quotes in this case or
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equivalently double quotes to represent
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the keys in that dictionary and after a
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colon it stores the value of that key
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and so you'll see that indeed we have a
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result count key whose value is one but
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then a more interesting result key
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called results whose value is this
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entire list of data now honestly this is
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such a big blob of text that it's going
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to take me forever to wrap my mind
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around what i'm seeing so let me propose
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temporarily we use another library in
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python that will allow me to format my
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data a little more cleanly it turns out
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that python also comes with a special
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library uh called json that allows you
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to manipulate json data and even just
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printing print it that is formatted in a
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way that's going to be way easier for
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you and i to understand so let me go
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back to my code here let me shrink my
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terminal window
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and let me propose that just temporarily
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again we do this let me import this
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additional library json which comes with
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python so i don't need to install it
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manually with pip and let me go ahead
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now and not just print out response.json
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which was that big blob of hard to
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understand text let me go ahead and use
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one other function here called
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json.dump s for dump string and pass to
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that function that response dot json
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return value so again i'm just
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introducing another function who i claim
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it has a purpose in life of pretty
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printing nicely formatting on the screen
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the exact same information i know this
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from the documentation having done this
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before but i'd like things to be nicely
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indented and according to the
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documentation if i pass in a named
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parameter of indent equals two that's
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going to indent everything at least two
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spaces i could do four or something else
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but it's going to be enough to help me
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wrap my mind around what the data is i'm
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getting back because again i'm just
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learning along with you so let me
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increase the size of my terminal window
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again let me run python of itunes.pi and
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again let's search for weezer and hit
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enter and now notice
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it's still a little bit cryptic because
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there's a lot going on here but my gosh
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i can totally read this more easily now
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notice now that i still see the first
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curly brace which means hey this is a
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dictionary in python a collection of
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keys and values the first key is called
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result count it happens to be displayed
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in double quotes now but that's just an
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issue of formatting it could be double
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or single so long as we're consistent
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the value of that key is one why well i
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told the url to only limit the responses
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to one weezer song so i've gotten a
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result set of one if i increase that
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limit i could probably get more then the
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interesting part of this response is
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really the data itself notice in the
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results key here there's a really big
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value the value is a python list as
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implied
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by this square bracket what does this
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list contain well i know from skimming
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it earlier that this contains one
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dictionary and that's why we see another
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curly brace here
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so again if this gets a little more
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complicated keep in mind that a
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dictionary is just a collection of key
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value pairs and python uses curly braces
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to indicate as much
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it is perfectly reasonable for a
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dictionary to be inside of another
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