import jsondef clean_data():r = requests.get('https://coderbyte.com/api/challenges/json/json-cleaning')return r.json()print(clean_data())

Example Input

{"name":{"first":"Daniel","middle":"N/A","last":"Smith"},"age":45}

Example Output

{"name":{"first":"Daniel","last":"Smith"},"age":45}

You can recursively solve this

import json
import requestsr = requests.get('https://coderbyte.com/api/challenges/json/json-cleaning')
data = r.json()def clean_data(data):if(isinstance(data, dict)):to_be_deleted = []for k in data:if(isinstance(data[k], dict)):new_val = clean_data(data[k])data[k] = new_valif(isinstance(data[k], list)):new_val = clean_data(data[k])data[k] = new_valelif(isinstance(data[k], str)):if(data[k] == 'N/A'):to_be_deleted.append(k)for i in to_be_deleted:del data[i]return dataif(isinstance(data, list)):to_be_deleted = []for i in range(len(data)):if(isinstance(data[i], dict)):new_val = clean_data(data[i])data[i] = new_valif(isinstance(data[i], list)):new_val = clean_data(data[k])data[i] = new_valelif(isinstance(data[i], str)):if(data[i] == 'N/A'):to_be_deleted.append(i)for i in to_be_deleted:del data[i]return dataclean_data(data)

data = data = {"name":{"first":"Daniel","middle":"N/A","last":"Smith", "haha": {'hihi':1, "hoho":"N/A"}},"age":45, "hehe":[1,2,3,4,"N/A"]}
clean_data(data)
# {'name': {'first': 'Daniel', 'last': 'Smith', 'haha': {'hihi': 1}}, 'age': 45, 'hehe': [1, 2, 3, 4]}