Traverses ordered dictionary, calls _traverse_results() to recursively read into the dictionary depth of data

def parse_results(fields, data):
    """
    Traverses ordered dictionary, calls _traverse_results() to recursively read into the dictionary depth of data
    """
    master = []

    for record in data['records']:  # for each 'record' in response
        row = [None] * len(fields)  # create null list the length of number of columns
        for obj, value in record.iteritems():  # for each obj in record
            if not isinstance(value, (dict, list, tuple)):  # if not data structure
                if obj in fields:
                    row[fields.index(obj)] = ensure_utf(value)

            elif isinstance(value, dict) and obj != 'attributes':  # traverse down into object
                path = obj
                _traverse_results(value, fields, row, path)

        master.append(row)
    return master