The below depends on the json Python module to ‘pretty print’ JSON output in Python. I found this useful when trying to write my script to remove unused Todoist labels.
import json
# This function saves time printing JSON nicely
def pj(str):
print(json.dumps(json.loads(str.content), indent=4))
return
pj(thing_containing_raw_json_here)
Note that in my case this was contingent on having used the requests module in the following fashion to already make sure the format is a bit jsonified, if I understand the .json at the end, which is not 100% guaranteed.
r = requests.post(todoistURL+"/login", params=loginParams).json()
There are numerous other ways to get JSON from an API or whatever than just using requests (I think people also use urllib?), but this is the route I took.
2 replies on “Pretty print JSON in Python (snippet)”
Nice article :), but some thoughts:
– Generally bad practice to override built in language names (looking at you str)
– The var name is called str but isn’t a string as I read it, otherwise you wouldn’t be calling str.content. Stand to be correct though!
Can’t
json.dumps(json.loads(str.content), indent=4)
become
json.dumps(str,indent=4)
?
Cheers Jake 🙂 more than happy for you to impart your wisdom on stuff I post here 😛