How to add a lists of dictionaries to another dictionary?

[blockgeek]

I have this dictionary "properties " with a key livenessTests and in turn the livenessTests is a list of dictionaries. How do I add/append livenessTests to another dictionary json?

properties = {

'livenessTests': [

{

'name':'http' + '_' + 'livenesstest',

'testObject':'/default.html'

},

{

'name':'https' + '_' + 'livenesstest',

'testObject':'/default.html'

}
]

The resulting "json" directory should be something like

json : {

"acg": {

"id": "1-7KLGU.G19717",

"name": "Akamai Internal-1-7KLGU - 1-7KLGU.G19717"

},

"asmappings": [],

"cidrMaps": [],

"properties": {"livenessTests" : [{<contents from list above>},
                                  {<contents from list above>}
                                 ] 

              }

I am trying this :

json['properties'] = []  

for key in properties.keys():
    print key
    json['properties'].append(property[key])

But I am getting ,

 "livenessTests": [
     {
         "name": "http_livenessTest",
         "testObject": "/default.html"
     },
     {
         "name": "https_livenessTest",
         "testObject": "/default.html"
     },

so I am not getting the key 'properties' .
Can you tell me where I am wrong ?

[sritaa]

The same way you would add any other object.

myDict = {}
myDict[“myList”] = []
That would add an empty list, whose key is “myList”, to the dictionary “myDict”.

You could also use the dict “update” method, as follows:

myDict.update( myList: [] )
or this way:

myDict.update( {‘myList’: []} )
Although the second method is more appropriate to add several key/value pairs or for merging two dictionaries.