Python: converting a list of dictionaries to json

Question

I have a list of dictionaries, looking some thing like this:

list = [{\'id\': 123, \'data\': \'qwerty\', \'indices\': [1,10]}, {\'id\': 345, \'data\': \'mnbv         


        

Answer 1

use json library

import json
json.dumps(list)

by the way, you might consider changing variable list to another name, list is the builtin function for a list creation, you may get some unexpected behaviours or some buggy code if you don't change the variable name.

Answer 2

To convert it to a single dictionary with some decided keys value, you can use the code below.

data = ListOfDict.copy()
PrecedingText = "Obs_"
ListOfDictAsDict = {}
for i in range(len(data)):
    ListOfDictAsDict[PrecedingText + str(i)] = data[i]

Answer 3

import json

list = [{'id': 123, 'data': 'qwerty', 'indices': [1,10]}, {'id': 345, 'data': 'mnbvc', 'indices': [2,11]}]

Write to json File:

with open('/home/ubuntu/test.json', 'w') as fout:
    json.dump(list , fout)

Read Json file:

with open(r"/home/ubuntu/test.json", "r") as read_file:
    data = json.load(read_file)
print(data)
#list = [{'id': 123, 'data': 'qwerty', 'indices': [1,10]}, {'id': 345, 'data': 'mnbvc', 'indices': [2,11]}]

Answer 4

response_json = ("{ \"response_json\":" + str(list_of_dict)+ "}").replace("\'","\"")
response_json = json.dumps(response_json)
response_json = json.loads(response_json)