Question about working with dictionaries

[Ashcora]

Hello forum,

I am having the current hurdle working with dictionaries.
Concrete: I am trying to add variable amounts of components to a JIRA issue.

Example:
If "Linux" is selected, I want to have the distribution added as second component as well.
Result in components: "Linux", "Mint"

JIRA required to have the following structure

[{ "name" : "component" }]

or for multiple components

[{ "name" : "component" }, { "name" : "component" }]

What works is something like:

[{ "name" : VARIABLE }]

or

[{ "name" : VARIABLE }, { "name" : SECOND_VARIABLE }]

What is now my problem:
I need to have this structure depending on what is selected before as having empty variables is not valid for the cases having only one component.

If e.g. "Windows" is selected I want to have this structure:

[{ "name" : VARIABLE }]

and if "Linux" is selected, I want to have this structure:

[{ "name" : VARIABLE }, { "name" : SECOND_VARIABLE }]

Filling the variables is no issue at all, only "building" the dictionaries within if-clauses beforehand and moving them as variable in this structure is an issue.

I tried the following:

if var_LinuxDistro == 1:
  components_list = '{ "name" : "Linux" }, { "name" : "'+VARIABLE+'" }'

else:
  components_list = '{ "name" : "'+VARIABLE+'" }'

and took this components to the creation part:

issue_dict = {
    'project': {'key': 'Project'},
    'summary': 'Testing issue from Python',
    'description': 'Ticket description.',
    'issuetype': {'name': 'Issue'},
    'components': [components_list],
}

Leading to an error
response text = {"errorMessages":[],"errors":{"components":"expected Object"}}

How can I get this fixed?


If this is necessary, here is an example how to import an issue to JIRA with python

issue_dict = {
    'project': {'key': 'Project'},
    'summary': 'Testing issue from Python',
    'description': 'Ticket description.',
    'issuetype': {'name': 'Issue'},
    'components': [{'name': 'Issue'}, {'name': 'Issue'}],
}

new_issue = jira_connection.create_issue(fields=issue_dict)