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)

Answer 2

There is a json library.

import json

jsonObj = json.dumps(data)

Thats for json serializing. If you want output be formatted in some other way than you initial data variable, you should create another object, initialize it with values from data in the way you need and than use json library for serialization.