Reading JSON from a file?

Question

I am getting a bit of headache just because a simple looking, easy statement is throwing some errors in my face.

I have a json file called strings.json like this:

Answer 1

This works for me.

json.load() accepts file object, parses the JSON data, populates a Python dictionary with the data and returns it back to you.

Suppose JSON file is like this:

{
   "emp_details":[
                 {
                "emp_name":"John",
                "emp_emailId":"john@gmail.com"  
                  },
                {
                 "emp_name":"Aditya",
                 "emp_emailId":"adityatest@yahoo.com"
                }
              ] 
}

import json 

# Opening JSON file 
f = open('data.json',) 

# returns JSON object as  
# a dictionary 
data = json.load(f) 

# Iterating through the json 
# list 
for i in data['emp_details']: 
    print(i) 

# Closing file 
f.close()

#Output:
{'emp_name':'John','emp_emailId':'john@gmail.com'}
{'emp_name':'Aditya','emp_emailId':'adityatest@yahoo.com'}