ssht | Fast and exact spin spherical harmonic transforms

I'm learning python and JSON library and trying to find out how to extract a specific key/value from this JSON response. I'm using AWS Lambda and the output is not like exactly JSON as it has "\ inside. I'm not sure how I can extract one value from there.

Any ideas to get releaseVersion value here? thanks!

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I have a code which was previously parallelised in python using multiprocess and it worked okay (although slow and memory hungry). I've decided to try to convert it to cython. I'm new to cython and not much experience in c. The below example is as simplified as I can get it, and it worked serially, but as soon as I parallelised it, it no longer works. Due to the nature of running in parallel I've gone through all my code and turned off gil.

The code relies on an external C library https://github.com/astro-informatics/ssht/ (compilation instructions in the README) which uses fftw under the hood. This library has its own cython file which calls the same c function that I'm using (ssht_core_mw_inverse_sov_sym_ss). The function which closely resembles mine (in the cython file in that repo) looks like this

I would like to loop through 4 certain worksheets in a workbook. Bulk of the code I am running is the same in each sheet. I am also opening and linking different cells from other workbooks and these will be different on each sheet, hence why my code will be slightly different as it will change variables.

The problem I have is It's working but ignores the rest of my if statements except the first so doesn't run the way I want it to. Example below