Handling JSON · Cookbook

Converting Python dictionaries to and from JSON is easy with the json package.

import json

def to_json(data):
	'''Creates JSON from a Python dict'''
    return json.dumps(data, indent=4, sort_keys=True)

def read_json(filename):
    '''Reads JSON from a file, returns a Python dict'''
    with open(filename, 'r') as f:
        return json.load(f)