What I'm trying to do is call an API and get a chunk of JSON data, then store it in a nested dictionary, as I iterate through a list of strings. (000, 001, 004, etc.) ...

The trick to this code is the dict method dict.get (key, default=None). This method allows you to assign keys on the fly and generate default values for a given entry if none is already provided (like ...

SigmaEpsilon.DeepDict - A lightweight Python library for nested dictionaries sigmaepsilon.deepdict is a lightweight Python library designed to handle nested dictionaries more easily, especially in ...

Ditto for dictionaries. I know. The problem I was originally trying to solve only contains nested dictionaries and lists, so I was just changing in-place.