How to output a random element of a JSON array using Python?

Question

Python

I've been struggling with one task for an hour already, googled in Russian, googled in English, read the documentation.
You need to go through the json object of the form:

{
  "items": [{
    "name": "Первый",
    "ingredients": "Первое",
    "cookWay": "Первые"
  }, {
    "name": "Второй",
    "ingredients": "Второе",
    "cookWay": "Вторые"
  }, {
    "name": "Третий",
    "ingredients": "Третье",
    "cookWay": "Третьи"
  }]
}

I do this, of course, with a for loop, first reading the file, and then sorting through everything that is in it:

recipes = open('items.json', 'r')
parsed_recipes = json.load(recipes)

def rand_item():
    for element in parsed_recipes["items"]:
        name = element['name']
        ingredients = element['ingredients']
        howto = element['cookWay']
    ready_recipe = name + ingredients + howto
    ready = random.choice(ready_recipe)
    return ready

But in this way, it returns not a random element, which should be obtained after adding three variables, but a random letter from this element
. How can I make it output exactly a random element from this array in the json file, and not a letter?

Answer 1

Obviously, you first need to take a random element, and then get the values ​​\u200b\u200bof its fields

def rand_item():    
    random_recipe =  random.choice(parsed_recipes["items"])
    name = random_recipe['name']
    ingredients = random_recipe['ingredients']
    howto = random_recipe['cookWay']
    ready_recipe = name + ingredients + howto
    return ready_recipe