how to remove key/value pair in a json file in python

Question

{
    "duncan_long": {
        "id": "drekaner",
        "name": "Duncan Long",
        "favorite_color": "Blue"
    },
    "kelsea_head": {
        "id": "wagshark",
        "name": "Kelsea Head",
        "favorite_color": "Ping"
    },
    "phoenix_knox": {
        "id": "jikininer",
        "name": "Phoenix Knox",
        "favorite_color": "Green"
    },
    "adina_norton": {
        "id": "slimewagner",
        "name": "Adina Norton",
        "favorite_color": "Red"
    }
}

I am trying to Return a JSON list of all the users excluding the id of the user

Answer 1

Assuming, the file in which you have your JSON is called file.json:

import json
with open('file.json') as f:
    d = json.load(f)
    for key, value in d.items():
        del value['id']
        d[key] = value

Alternative you can use the following:

import json
with open('file.json') as f:
    d = json.load(f)
    for key, value in d.items():
        value.pop('id', None) // this will not crash if the element has no key 'id'