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So I believe it was quite easy to
realize that the best way to load this

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data in Python is a Python dictionary. So
this looks just like a Python dictionary

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and once we load it in in the Python
dictionary then it becomes very easy to

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access a value for a key. So how do we
load this into a Python dictionary? Well

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I let me open a command shell here.
For now I'm just going to demonstrate

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something quick in an interactive Python
shell, but first you may need to close

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this JSON file because this is slowing
down Atom. Don't save the changes. I

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didn't do any change anyway. So python 3.
That will open my Python 3.6.1,

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but anyway even if you have
Python 2 this program will work the

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same. So how do you load JSON into a
Python dictionary? Well, for that we need to

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use the JSON standard library. With a
standard library it means that you don't

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need to install JSON. You just need to go
ahead and import it. Once you do that

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there is a nice JSON.load method
there and this load method, this

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expects, actually I can show it like this.
Help JSON dot load.

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So this gets this argument here which is
a file like object that contains a JSON

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document, so we're talking about the file
object in Python and we need to create

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that file. The way to do that is simple.
So JSON again dot load. The way

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we create a file object is by using
the open method. You know that already.

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Then you pass the path to the file.
Now since my terminal here is pointing

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to this folder I just need to pass the
file name I don't need to pass any full

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path in there, so like that you can either
pass the R method which stands

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for read mode or you can just leave
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default. Make sure to close brackets two
times. So we have two opening brackets

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here. Two closing brackets in here and
that's all. Now what is data? Data is a

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dictionary, so it's a Python dictionary
and you can print it out. Yeah, it's quite

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a lot of data. So that took a while,
but normally you do not have to

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print out the entire dictionary. What
you could check is to access a word and

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a key from the dictionary. Let's say the
key rain. You need to use brackets, sorry

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quotes for the key. This is what you get.
So yet the value for the word rain, for

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the key rain. So now that you know how
this works

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more or less, try to come up with a
function that gets as input a key and

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then returns the value for that
particular key and also try to

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incorporate the loading of the JSON file
and also print out the output. So if you

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have issues with that, in the next video
I'll show you how we do that. See you there.