On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Chris Patillo <pythonnewb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to read in a .json file and write out a file with some of the
> information from this file. I can't figure out how to read the .json file
> in. I know there is a module for this, but I don't understand how it works.
>
> The file I am needing to read is like below (except much much larger)
>
> {
>
> "table":"contacts",
>
> "records":[
>
> {
>
> "name":"John",
>
> "phone":"555-555-4444"
>
> },
>
> {
>
> "name":"Jane",
>
> "phone":"555-555-3333"
>
> },
>
> ]
>
> }
>
>
>
> I have no clue how to do this. I was thinking something like;
>
> import json
>
> json.dumps([name,phone], seperators(":"))
json.dumps() converts a structure to a json string. json.load() is
what you want. If your file is called data.json, try
import json
data = json.load(open('data.json'))
print data
If your data is not Ascii or UTF-8 you have to specify the encoding to
json.load().
Kent
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