On Thursday 1 Dec 2016 17:55 CET, Zachary Ware wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> wrote: >> I would prefer when it would generate: >> '[ >> "An array", >> "with several strings", >> "as a demo" >> ]' >> >> Is this possible, or do I have to code this myself? > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/json.html?highlight=indent#json.dump > > Python 3.5.2 (v3.5.2:4def2a2901a5, Jun 26 2016, 10:47:25) [GCC 4.2.1 > (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", > "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import json >>>> json.dumps(["An array", "with several strings", "as a demo"]) > '["An array", "with several strings", "as a demo"]' >>>> print(_) > ["An array", "with several strings", "as a demo"] >>>> json.dumps(["An array", "with several strings", "as a demo"], >>>> indent=0) > '[\n"An array",\n"with several strings",\n"as a demo"\n]' >>>> print(_) > [ > "An array", > "with several strings", > "as a demo" > ]
Works like a charm. Strings can contain newlines also, but then I do not want a new line, but that works like a charm. I used: cursor.execute('INSERT INTO test (json) VALUES (?)' , [json.dumps(['An array', 'with several strings', 'as a demo', 'and\none\nwith\na\nnewlines'], indent = 0)]) and that gave exactly what I wanted. Now I need to convert the database. But that should not be a big problem. > I've also seen something about JSON support in SQLite, you may want > to look into that. I will do that, but later. I have what I need. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list