How can JSON data with null value be converted to a dictionary

Question

{
  \"abc\": null,
  \"def\": 9
}

I have JSON data which looks like this. If not for null (without quotes as a string), I could have used ast

Answer 1

One solution is to use a variable that contains None.

import json
null = None
data = { "test": null }
json.dumps(data)