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Python function to recursively clean $ from JSON to place in MongoDB
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| ################# | |
| def sanitiseNames(dummyObject): | |
| ################# | |
| if type(dummyObject)==dict: | |
| for k,v in dummyObject.items(): | |
| if re.search('\$',k,re.U): | |
| # Replace | |
| dummyObject[k.replace('$','')]=v | |
| del dummyObject[k] | |
| dummyObject[k.replace('$','')]=sanitiseNames(v) | |
| # Clean those values | |
| return dummyObject | |
| elif type(dummyObject)==list: | |
| # Might be list of dictionaries | |
| for e in dummyObject: | |
| dummyObject=[sanitiseNames(e) for e in dummyObject] | |
| return dummyObject | |
| else: | |
| # If bottom out to int or string | |
| return dummyObject | |
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Gist to clean a JSON object so it can be placed in MongoDB. Any keys containing '$' cannot be handled in MongoDB, therefore replace keys such as '$t' as returned by YouTube API with 't'