The JavaScript JSON Cookbook

Reading and writing JSON in Python

Python has had native support for JSON since Python 2.6 through the json module. Using the module is as simple as using the import statement to import the module and then accessing the encoder and decoder through the json object that it defines.

Getting ready

Simply enter the following in your source code to be able to reference the JSON facility:

import json

How to do it...

Here's a simple example from the Python interpreter:

>>> import json >>>json = '{ "call":"KF6GPE","type":"l","time":"1399371514", "lasttime":"1418597513","lat": 37.17667,"lng": -122.14650, "result" : "ok" }' u'{"call":"KF6GPE","type":"l","time":"1399371514", "lasttime":"1418597513","lat": 37.17667,"lng": -122.14650, "result": "ok" }' >>>result ...