Difference between revisions of "Python:JSON"

Revision as of 23:14, 21 December 2018

import json: Enable json functions. The json module is standard available (no installation needed)

Read a json file and return it as dict.

import json
with open(filename) as fh:
    data = json.load(fh)

json.dumps(dict, indent=4): Convert a dict into a json string nicely structured. Indent each level with 4 spaces.; Can be used on other datatypes too.

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 [[Category:Python]]
-;import json
+;import [https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html json]
 :Enable json functions. The json module is standard available (no installation needed)
+Read a json file and return it as [[Python:DataTypes#Dictionary_or_dict|dict]].
+<syntaxhighlight lang=python>
+import json
+with open(filename) as fh:
+    data = json.load(fh)
+</syntaxhighlight>
 ;json.dumps(dict, indent=4)
-:Return the dict nicely structured. Indent each level with 4 spaces.
+:Convert a dict into a json string nicely structured. Indent each level with 4 spaces.
-:Can be used on other datatypes too.
+:Can be used on other [[Python:DataTypes|datatypes]] too.