This is a general reply to all. Thanks for all the suggestions. I hadn't really thought about filtering empty dictionaries because the data I'm processing won't have them, but it does make for a much nicer, more general filter. I did end up using bearophileH's code, but that's mostly because he got there first. Each solution functioned as advertised.
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