[python] python JSON only get keys in first level

I have a very long and complicated json object but I only want to get the items/keys in the first level!

Example:

{
    "1": "a", 
    "3": "b", 
    "8": {
        "12": "c", 
        "25": "d"
    }
}

I want to get 1,3,8 as result!

I found this code:

for key, value in data.iteritems():
    print key, value

But it prints all keys (also 12 and 25)

A good way to check whether a python object is an instance of a type is to use isinstance() which is Python's 'built-in' function. For Python 3.6:

dct = {
       "1": "a", 
       "3": "b", 
       "8": {
            "12": "c", 
            "25": "d"
           }
      }

for key in dct.keys():
    if isinstance(dct[key], dict)== False:
       print(key, dct[key])
#shows:
# 1 a
# 3 b

for key in data.keys():
    print key

As Karthik mentioned, dct.keys() will work but it will return all the keys in dict_keys type not in list type. So if you want all the keys in a list, then list(dct.keys()) will work.