How to prettyprint a JSON file?

Question

I have a JSON file that is a mess that I want to prettyprint. What\'s the easiest way to do this in Python?

I know PrettyPrint takes an \"object\", which I think can

Answer 1

To be able to pretty print from the command line and be able to have control over the indentation etc. you can set up an alias similar to this:

alias jsonpp="python -c 'import sys, json; print json.dumps(json.load(sys.stdin), sort_keys=True, indent=2)'"

And then use the alias in one of these ways:

cat myfile.json | jsonpp
jsonpp < myfile.json