title: understanding tweepy's status object
body: <p>I've been working with <code>tweepy streaming API</code> and I have noticed one thing. The response of a <code>status</code> object is not pure <code>JSON</code> it has some additional information also. Here's my question:</p>
  <p>If I need the text content of a tweet, I have to do <code>status.text</code> which is <strong>inside the _json dictionary/ json object</strong>. But, if I need the the media, or the full text for example, I have to do <code>status.entities['media'][0]['media_url_https']</code> or <code>status.extended_tweet['full_text']</code>, although both <code>entities</code> and <code>extended_tweet</code> are inside another dictionary in the <code>_json</code> object.</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Why do we have to use the <code>dot (.) notation</code> to access outer dictionaries in the <code>_json</code> and the <code>[] notation</code> to access values in inner dictionaries?</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p><strong>I understand the [] notation but what does the dot notation mean?</strong></p>
  <p><strong>status object</strong>:</p>
  <pre class="lang-py prettyprint-override"><code>Status(_api=&lt;tweepy.api.API object at 0x7f6851708190&gt;, _json={'created_at': 'Mon Feb 01 10:58:31 +0000 2021', 
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  'id_str': '1356195217687392256', 
  'text': 'hiii IWD1FKPH0JEFS2PNH7KBSPXQ2EAZVORAWCE2580MWFW4N0OAFM63WI06CAZ4OYBLMPATC4VL9OAMFH86K660EXVMP53M36PN0FTU1ETKBIIP7D… , 
  'display_text_range': [0, 140], 
  'source': '&lt;a href=&quot;https://mobile.twitter.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Twitter Web App&lt;/a&gt;', 
  'truncated': True, 'in_reply_to_status_id': None, 'in_reply_to_status_id_str': None, 'in_reply_to_user_id': None, 'in_reply_to_user_id_str': None, 'in_reply_to_screen_name': None, 
  'user': {'id': 1355079285812453379, 'id_str': '1355079285812453379', 'name': 'db1-testing', 'screen_name': 'Db1Testing', 'location': None, 'url': None, 'description': None, 'translator_type': 'none', 'protected': False, 'verified': False, 'followers_count': 0, 'friends_count': 0, 'listed_count': 0, 'favourites_count': 0, 'statuses_count': 29, 'created_at': 'Fri Jan 29 09:04:24 +0000 2021', 'utc_offset': None, 'time_zone': None, 
  'geo_enabled': False, 'lang': None, 'contributors_enabled': False, 
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  'url': None, 
  'description': None, 
  'translator_type': 'none', 
  'protected': False, 'verified': False, 
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  'listed_count': 0, 'favourites_count': 0, 
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  'created_at': 'Fri Jan 29 09:04:24 +0000 2021', 
  'utc_offset': None, 'time_zone': None, 
  'geo_enabled': False, 'lang': None, 
  'contributors_enabled': False, 
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  'profile_text_color': '333333', 
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  'default_profile': True, 
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  'following': None, 'follow_request_sent': None, 
  'notifications': None}, id=1355079285812453379, 
  id_str='1355079285812453379', 
  name='db1-testing', 
  screen_name='Db1Testing', 
  location=None, 
  url=None, description=None, 
  translator_type='none', 
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  verified=False, 
  followers_count=0, 
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  default_profile_image=False, following=False, 
  follow_request_sent=None, notifications=None), 
  user=User(_api=&lt;tweepy.api.API object at 0x7f6851708190&gt;, 
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  'url': None, 'description': None, 'translator_type': 'none', 'protected': False, 'verified': False, 'followers_count': 0, 
  'friends_count': 0, 
  'listed_count': 0, 
  'favourites_count': 0, 
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  'created_at': 'Fri Jan 29 09:04:24 +0000 2021', 
  'utc_offset': None, 
  'time_zone': None, 
  'geo_enabled':False, 
  'lang': None, 
  'contributors_enabled': False, 
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  'profile_background_image_url': '', 
  'profile_background_image_url_https': '', 
  'profile_background_tile': False, 
  'profile_link_color': '1DA1F2', 
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  'profile_sidebar_fill_color': 'DDEEF6', 
  'profile_text_color': '333333', 
  'profile_use_background_image': True, 
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  default_profile_image=False, following=False, 
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  'display_url': 'twitter.com/i/web/status/1…', 'indices': [117, 140]}], 'user_mentions': [], 
  'symbols': []}, favorited=False, retweeted=False,
   possibly_sensitive=False, filter_level='low', lang='ht', timestamp_ms='1612177111442')
  </code></pre>
  <p>A Stackoverflow answer <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/48326929/10934636">here</a> suggests using <code>status.extended_tweet.full_text</code> but it doesn't work until I do <code>status.extended_tweet['full_text']</code></p>