Convert JSON to CSV using Python (Idle)

Question

I have a JSON file of Latitude/Longitude that I want to covert to a CSV file. I want to do this using Python. I have read/tried all other stackoverflow and google search results

Answer 1

I would use a csv.DictWriter, since you're dealing with dicts, which is exactly the case DictWriter is there for.

rows = json.loads(x)
with open('test.csv', 'wb+') as f:
    dict_writer = csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames=['longitude', 'latitude'])
    dict_writer.writeheader()
    dict_writer.writerows(rows)

Edit:
Since the .writeheader() method was only added in 2.7, you can use something like this on older versions:

rows = json.loads(x)
fieldnames = ['longitude', 'latitude']
with open('test.csv', 'wb+') as f:
    dict_writer = csv.DictWriter(f, fieldnames=fieldnames)
    dict_writer.writerow(dict(zip(fieldnames, fieldnames)))
    dict_writer.writerows(rows)