Iterable JSON in Python

Python works relly nicely with JSON objects so long as all of your keys are nicely labeled and you dont have object or arrays with no key labels:

json = {
  "key" : "value",
  "anotherkey" : "value"
}

You can access the items really easily:

data = json.loads(json);

But it seems to work much less well, or at least, much less obviously if you have a JSON array of objects:

json = {
  "key": "value",
  {
    "a1key1" : "value",
    "a1key1" : "value"
  },
  {
    "a2key1" : "value",
    "a2key1" : "value"
  },
  {
    "a3key1" : "value",
    "a3key1" : "value"
  }
}

To access objects easily within your program, I have found it easiest if you add an additonal step to convert you JSON into a regular python array:

data = json.loads(json)
data = {int(k):v for k,v in data.items() if k.isdigit()}