How to prettyprint a JSON file in Python?

There are several ways you can parse and print JSON data with a proper indentation in Python. You can use json module of Python to prettyprint a json data as shown in the below example –

import json

json_data = '[{"name" : "debjeet"}, {"skills":["aws", "gcp", "azure"]}]'
parsed = json.loads(json_data)

## or load from a file
## with open('filename.json', 'r') as handle:
##   parsed = json.load(handle)

print(json.dumps(parsed, indent=4, sort_keys=True))

## Returns
## [    
##     {
##         "name": "debjeet"
##     },
##     {
##         "skills": [
##             "aws",
##             "gcp",
##             "azure"
##         ]
##     }
## ]

import json

json_data = '[{"name" : "debjeet"}, {"skills":["aws", "gcp", "azure"]}]'

parsed = json.loads(json_data)

## or load from a file

## with open('filename.json', 'r') as handle:

## parsed = json.load(handle)

print(json.dumps(parsed, indent=4, sort_keys=True))

## Returns

## [

## {

## "name": "debjeet"

## },

## {

## "skills": [

## "aws",

## "gcp",

## "azure"

## ]

## }

## ]

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