For python3 inline if statement, is it possible to do the if part first?

First time asking a question, please correct me if anything is unclear or not regulated
I'm currently writing a Django rest framework endpoint and here is my question
Here I have a template to be filled with keys, assume I received a post request with body like this

{
"times": 10,
"type": "button"
}

Here is my APIView post function

def post(self,request,format = None):
    if request.data["times"]:
        times = request.data["times"]
        type = request.data["type"]
        data = request.data
        data.pop('times')

    if times:
        for _ in range(times):
            color = color_list[random.randint(0, len(color_list) - 1)]
            color_code = fake.color(hue=color)

            myobj = {
                "name": f"{color} background button",
                "children": [],
                "struct_type": data["type"] if data["type"] else "button",
                "func_type": data["type"] if data["type"] else "button",
                "direction": data["direction"] if data["direction"] else "vertical",
                "buoyancy": data["buoyancy"] if data["buoyancy"] else 0,
                "parameters": data["parameters"] if data["parameters"] else {
                    "freeCanvas": {
                        "left": 20,
                        "top": 20,
                        "zIndex": 0,
                        "width": 54,
                        "height": 27
                    },
                    "group": "form",
                    "layouts": [
                        "desktop",
                        "tablet",
                        "mobile"
                    ],
                    "textContent": "button",
                    "showRipple": True
                },
                "styles": data["styles"] if data["styles"] else{
                    "classNames": [
                        "button"
                    ],
                    "ownStyles": {
                        "color": "#000000",
                        "background-color": f"{color_code}"
                    }
                },
                "shared": data["shared"] if data["shared"] else True

            }
            print(serializer.validated_data(myobj))
        return Response(f"Successfully generated {times} random {type} elements")

Take I have a "type" key within the post body, the func_type and struct_type should be fine, but the direction won't be able to check if there is a key in the post data but just tells me a key error, is any way around this?