Python:JSON
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- import json
- Enable json functions. The json module is standard available (no installation needed)
- json.loads(<jsonstring>)
- Return <jsonstring> as dict.
- json.load(<fh>)
- Read a jsonstring from the file opened on <fh> and return it as dict.
import json
with open(filename) as fh:
data = json.load(fh)
- Read a jsonstring from an url into a dictionary.
import json
import requests
response = json.loads(requests.get(url).text)
for key in response:
print(key)
Below can be used on datatypes like lists and tuples too, not on sets.
- json.dumps(dict, indent=4)
- Convert a dict into a json string nicely formatted. Indent each level with 4 spaces.
- json.dump(dict, fh, indent=4)
- Dumps to the file opened on filehandle fh.