How do I read a json file into python?

Question

I\'m new to JSON and Python, any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

I read about json.loads but am confused

How do I read a file into Python using j

Answer 1

Open the file, and get a filehandle:

fh = open('thefile.json')

https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#open

Then, pass the file handle into json.load(): (don't use loads - that's for strings)

import json
data = json.load(fh)

https://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html#json.load

From there, you can easily deal with a python dictionary that represents your json-encoded data.

new_list = [(detail['abc'], detail['def']) for detail in data['details']]

Note that your JSON format is also wrong. You will need comma delimiters in many places, but that's not the question.