How do I JSON serialize a Python dictionary?

Question

I\'m trying to make a Django function for JSON serializing something and returning it in an HttpResponse object.

def json_response(something):
          


        

Answer 1

In python 2.6 and higher there is a nice JSON library, which has many functions among which is json.dumps() which serializes an object into a string.

So you can do something like this:

import json
print json.dumps({'howdy' : True })