如何使用Python提取Met Office JSON下载的数据

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我正在使用Python 3.4。

我开始了一个项目，目的是下载英国气象局的天气预报数据（格式是JSON），并把这些信息用作我家供暖系统的天气补偿器。我已经成功从气象局下载了JSON数据文件，现在我想提取我需要的信息。我可以通过把文件转换成字符串，然后用.find和.int方法来提取数据，但这样的方法感觉有点粗糙（虽然有效）。既然JSON被认为是一种常用的数据交换格式，那肯定有更好的方法来处理这个问题。我发现了一些像json.load和json.loads这样的东西，还有json.JSONDecoder.decode，但我在使用这些方法时没有成功，实际上我对自己在做什么也不是很清楚！

我的代码是：

import urllib.request
import json

#Comment:  THIS IS THE CALL TO GET THE MET OFFICE FILE FROM THE INTERNET
#Comment:  **** = my personal met office API key, which I had better keep to myself

response = urllib.request.urlopen('http://datapoint.metoffice.gov.uk/public/data/val/wxfcs/all/json/354037?res=3hourly&key=****')

FCData    = response.read()
FCDataStr = str(FCData)

#Comment:   END OF THE CALL TO GET MET OFFICE FILE FROM THE INTERNET
#Comment:   Example of data extraction

ChPos = FCDataStr.find('"DV"')      #Find "DV"    
ChPos = FCDataStr.find('"dataDate"', ChPos, ChPos+50)      #Find "dataDate"

FileDataDate = FCDataStr[ChPos+12:ChPos+22]                #Extract the date of the file

#Comment:   And so on

当我使用json.loads(FCDataStr)时，出现了以下错误信息：

"ValueError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)"

通过删除开头的b'和结尾的'，这个错误就消失了（见下文）。使用print(FCDataStr)打印JSON文件的字符串格式，结果是：

b'{"SiteRep":{"Wx":{"Param":[{"name":"F","units":"C","$":"Feels Like Temperature"},{"name":"G","units":"mph","$":"Wind Gust"},{"name":"H","units":"%","$":"Screen Relative Humidity"},{"name":"T","units":"C","$":"Temperature"},{"name":"V","units":"","$":"Visibility"},{"name":"D","units":"compass","$":"Wind Direction"},{"name":"S","units":"mph","$":"Wind Speed"},{"name":"U","units":"","$":"Max UV Index"},{"name":"W","units":"","$":"Weather Type"},{"name":"Pp","units":"%","$":"Precipitation Probability"}]},"DV":{"dataDate":"2014-07-29T20:00:00Z","type":"Forecast","Location":{"i":"354037","lat":"51.7049","lon":"-2.9022","name":"USK","country":"WALES","continent":"EUROPE","elevation":"43.0","Period":[{"type":"Day","value":"2014-07-29Z","Rep":[{"D":"NNW","F":"22","G":"11","H":"51","Pp":"4","S":"9","T":"24","V":"VG","W":"7","U":"7","$":"900"},{"D":"NW","F":"19","G":"16","H":"61","Pp":"8","S":"11","T":"22","V":"EX","W":"8","U":"1","$":"1080"},{"D":"NW","F":"16","G":"20","H":"70","Pp":"1","S":"11","T":"18","V":"VG","W":"2","U":"0","$":"1260"}]},{"type":"Day","value":"2014-07-30Z","Rep":[{"D":"NW","F":"13","G":"16","H":"84","Pp":"0","S":"7","T":"14","V":"VG","W":"0","U":"0","$":"0"},{"D":"WNW","F":"12","G":"13","H":"90","Pp":"0","S":"7","T":"13","V":"VG","W":"0","U":"0","$":"180"},{"D":"WNW","F":"13","G":"11","H":"87","Pp":"0","S":"7","T":"14","V":"GO","W":"1","U":"1","$":"360"},{"D":"SW","F":"18","G":"9","H":"67","Pp":"0","S":"4","T":"19","V":"VG","W":"1","U":"2","$":"540"},{"D":"WNW","F":"21","G":"13","H":"56","Pp":"0","S":"9","T":"22","V":"VG","W":"3","U":"6","$":"720"},{"D":"W","F":"21","G":"20","H":"55","Pp":"0","S":"11","T":"23","V":"VG","W":"3","U":"6","$":"900"},{"D":"W","F":"18","G":"22","H":"57","Pp":"0","S":"11","T":"21","V":"VG","W":"1","U":"2","$":"1080"},{"D":"WSW","F":"16","G":"13","H":"80","Pp":"0","S":"7","T":"16","V":"VG","W":"0","U":"0","$":"1260"}]},{"type":"Day","value":"2014-07-31Z","Rep":[{"D":"SW","F":"14","G":"11","H":"91","Pp":"0","S":"4","T":"15","V":"GO","W":"0","U":"0","$":"0"},{"D":"SW","F":"14","G":"11","H":"92","Pp":"0","S":"4","T":"14","V":"GO","W":"0","U":"0","$":"180"},{"D":"SW","F":"15","G":"11","H":"89","Pp":"3","S":"7","T":"16","V":"GO","W":"3","U":"1","$":"360"},{"D":"WSW","F":"17","G":"20","H":"79","Pp":"28","S":"11","T":"18","V":"GO","W":"3","U":"2","$":"540"},{"D":"WSW","F":"18","G":"22","H":"72","Pp":"34","S":"11","T":"20","V":"GO","W":"10","U":"5","$":"720"},{"D":"WSW","F":"18","G":"22","H":"66","Pp":"13","S":"11","T":"20","V":"VG","W":"7","U":"5","$":"900"},{"D":"WSW","F":"17","G":"22","H":"69","Pp":"36","S":"11","T":"19","V":"VG","W":"10","U":"2","$":"1080"},{"D":"WSW","F":"16","G":"16","H":"84","Pp":"6","S":"9","T":"17","V":"GO","W":"2","U":"0","$":"1260"}]},{"type":"Day","value":"2014-08-01Z","Rep":[{"D":"SW","F":"16","G":"13","H":"91","Pp":"4","S":"7","T":"16","V":"GO","W":"7","U":"0","$":"0"},{"D":"SW","F":"15","G":"11","H":"93","Pp":"5","S":"7","T":"16","V":"GO","W":"7","U":"0","$":"180"},{"D":"SSW","F":"15","G":"11","H":"93","Pp":"7","S":"7","T":"16","V":"GO","W":"7","U":"1","$":"360"},{"D":"SSW","F":"17","G":"18","H":"79","Pp":"14","S":"9","T":"18","V":"GO","W":"7","U":"2","$":"540"},{"D":"SSW","F":"17","G":"22","H":"74","Pp":"43","S":"11","T":"19","V":"GO","W":"10","U":"5","$":"720"},{"D":"SW","F":"16","G":"22","H":"81","Pp":"48","S":"11","T":"18","V":"GO","W":"10","U":"5","$":"900"},{"D":"SW","F":"16","G":"18","H":"80","Pp":"55","S":"9","T":"17","V":"GO","W":"12","U":"1","$":"1080"},{"D":"SSW","F":"15","G":"16","H":"89","Pp":"38","S":"7","T":"16","V":"GO","W":"9","U":"0","$":"1260"}]},{"type":"Day","value":"2014-08-02Z","Rep":[{"D":"S","F":"14","G":"11","H":"94","Pp":"15","S":"7","T":"15","V":"GO","W":"7","U":"0","$":"0"},{"D":"SSE","F":"14","G":"11","H":"94","Pp":"16","S":"7","T":"15","V":"GO","W":"7","U":"0","$":"180"},{"D":"S","F":"14","G":"13","H":"93","Pp":"36","S":"7","T":"15","V":"GO","W":"10","U":"1","$":"360"},{"D":"S","F":"15","G":"20","H":"84","Pp":"62","S":"11","T":"17","V":"GO","W":"14","U":"2","$":"540"},{"D":"SSW","F":"16","G":"22","H":"78","Pp":"63","S":"11","T":"18","V":"GO","W":"14","U":"5","$":"720"},{"D":"WSW","F":"16","G":"27","H":"66","Pp":"59","S":"13","T":"19","V":"VG","W":"14","U":"5","$":"900"},{"D":"WSW","F":"15","G":"25","H":"68","Pp":"39","S":"13","T":"18","V":"VG","W":"10","U":"2","$":"1080"},{"D":"SW","F":"14","G":"16","H":"80","Pp":"28","S":"9","T":"15","V":"VG","W":"0","U":"0","$":"1260"}]}]}}}}'

使用：

DecodedJSON = json.loads(FCDataStr)
print(DecodedJSON)

得到的结果与原始的FCDataStr文件非常相似。

我该如何继续从文件中提取数据（比如每三小时的预报中的温度、风速等）呢？

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如何使用Python提取Met Office JSON下载的数据

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