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 API call and data storage ...

As an FYI, nosferatu-man's and my solutions are better than S. Carton's, but require Python 2.4. The "key" parameter to sort/sorted does a "Decorate-Sort-Undecorate" [1] automatically, whereas the ...