Python Tuple to JSON output

Question

How do I turn this:

data = ((1, \'2011-01-01\'), (2, \'2011-01-02\'), (1, \'2011-01-15\'), (3, \'2011-02-01\'))

into this:

Answer 1

Use the json library.

Then convert your data using something like this:

somedict = { "item"     : [ x[0] for x in data ],
             "settings" : { "axisx" : [ x[1] for x in data ],
                            "axisy" : [ 0, 100],
                            "colour" : "ff9900" }
           }

and call:

print json.dumps(somedict)