Converting string to ordered dictionary?

Question

I have a string which basically contains a bunch of JSON formatted text that I\'d ultimately like to export to Excel in \"pretty print\" format with the proper indentations

Answer 1

You can use the object_pairs_hook argument to JSONDecoder to change the decoded dictionaries to OrderedDict:

import collections
import json

decoder = json.JSONDecoder(object_pairs_hook=collections.OrderedDict)

json_string = '{"id":"0","last_modified":"undefined"}'
print decoder.decode(json_string)
json_string = '{"last_modified":"undefined","id":"0"}'
print decoder.decode(json_string)

This prints:

OrderedDict([(u'id', u'0'), (u'last_modified', u'undefined')])
OrderedDict([(u'last_modified', u'undefined'), (u'id', u'0')])